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 You can overwrite existing custom schemes.

 You cannot overwrite existing pre-defined backup schemes.

 In a scheme name, you can use any symbols allowed by OS for naming files. The maximum length

of a backup scheme name is 255 symbols.

 You can create not more than 16 custom backup schemes.

After creating a custom backup scheme, you can use it as any other existing backup scheme while

configuring a backup.

You can also use a custom backup scheme without saving it. In this case, it will be available only for

the backup where it was created and you will be unable to use it for other backups.

If you do not need a custom backup scheme anymore, you can delete it. To delete the scheme, select

it in the backup schemes list, click Delete, and then click Delete scheme in the confirmation window.

The pre-defined backup schemes cannot be deleted.

Examples of custom schemes

1. File backup “Daily incremental version + weekly full version”

Case: You have files and/or folders you work with every day. You need to save your daily work results

and want to be able to recover data state to any date for the last three weeks. Let’s see how you can

do this using a custom backup scheme.

1. Start configuring a file backup. Refer to Backing up files and folders for details.

2. Click Options, open Schedule tab, then click Daily and specify a start time for the backup

operation. For example, if you finish your everyday work at 8 PM, specify this time or a little later

(8.05 PM) as the start time.

3. Open the Backup scheme tab, and then choose Custom scheme instead of Incremental scheme.

4. In the Backup method box, select Incremental from the drop down list.

5. Click Create a full version after every [n] incremental versions, and type or select "6".

In that case, the program will first create the initial full backup version (no matter how you set up

a backup process, the first backup version will always be the full one), and then 6 incremental

versions day by day. Then, it will create 1 full version and 6 incremental versions again and so on.

So every new full version will be created in exactly a week's time.

6. To limit the storage time for the versions, click Turn on automatic cleanup.

7. Click Delete version chains older than [n] days, type or select "21", and click OK.

8. In the File Backup window, check that all settings are correct and click Back up now. If you want

your first backup to run only at the time you specified in the Scheduler, click the down arrow to

the right of the Back up now button and select Later in the drop down list.

2. Disk backup “Full version every 2 months + differential version twice a month”

Case: You need to back up your system partition twice a month and create a new full backup version

every two months. In addition, you want to use no more than 100 GB of disk space to store the

backup versions. Let’s see how you can do it using a custom backup scheme.

1. Start configuring a disk backup. Refer to Backing up disks and partitions (p. 35).

2. Select your system partition (usually C:) as the backup source.

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Acronis True Image 2015 - User Guide User Manual Page 45