Need help with backup scheme

harrispen

I'm new to using this product and I'm a bit frustrated. I'm doing a disk backup with a differential scheme and it seems to be doing a full back up every 4th time it does a back up. This takes too long. I want a back up scheme that only does a full back up maybe once a month. How can I change my back up to accomplish this.

Thanks in advance for your help

Flyer

Do you have the Pro version? Look here for directions on schemes: https://www.backup-utility.com/help/backup.html

harrispen

I've read the manual where it describes the different schemes and it doesn't tell me what I need. I would like to know what parameters I have to set so it doesn't do only 3 incremental backups and then a full one. The backups are taking up more disk space than I want and it takes a long time to do a full backup multiple times per week. Is there a way to do a full backup once a month and then only differential backups the rest?

Flyer

 Again, do you have the Pro version?

harrispen

Yes, I have the pro version.

Flyer

Use this to set up your schedule of one full backup once a month: https://www.backup-utility.com/help/how-to-schedule-backup.html
Now, how many differential backups do you want to keep and when do you want to make them? You can use the scheme and backup management to only save so many differential copies: https://www.backup-utility.com/help/backup-management.html and https://www.backup-utility.com/help/backup-scheme.html
(The layouts have changed a little since they just moved to version 5.0 and I haven't used that yet)

admin

Well, the differential backup scheme was designed that way, it must run a full backup followed by several differential backups.