Acronis true image back up question.

[trydowave]

Hi. recently backed up my 2 separate 500gig hdds (running in my main pc, one system and apps and the other data) using acronis true image 2014,
I backed up to a single 1tb drive and I choose the normal default compression level.

I wanted to check if I have done everything correctly before I forget about it.

Heres an image of acronis disk director (showing all drives connected), true image and the 1tb back up drive plugged in showing the backed up files.



Thanks

 

[mbreslin1954]

It looks fine. Set it to incremental, if it's not already set to that. The first time it will make a full system image, then subsequent backups will be just the changes. You should be able to get a few weeks worth of backups before the backup drive gets filled up and you have to start over.

 

[trydowave]

It looks fine. Set it to incremental, if it's not already set to that. The first time it will make a full system image, then subsequent backups will be just the changes. You should be able to get a few weeks worth of backups before the backup drive gets filled up and you have to start over.

how do I set up the incremental? Im only really looking to back it up once rather than all of the time. Should I bother with the incremental steps? I only say this as it took about 5 hours to do last time. Would the incremental back ups take a lot less time to do.

Sorry if these questions seem basic im totally new to this image stuff. Never used this kind of software before.

Cheers