There are 1 replies, with the last one on April 17 2014 at 06:36:41 by Gork
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This completely depends on YOU. How YOU use your computer, how often your data changes, how much data in between backups you are willing to lose.
My personal strategy is to run a full backup on the first of the month and incrementals on days 8, 15, 22 & 27 of the month. On day 28 I run a defrag.
After a third full backup is completed and successfully verified, I have sent Macrium to delete the oldest "backup chain."
But it's different for Mom... She only turns her computer on a few times per month. So, for her Reflect only runs once per month. If it is the first month of a new quarter, a full backup is taken. During other months an incremental backup runs. Same for the cleanup, though - after a third full backup is completed and successfully verified the oldest backup chain is deleted automatically.
Quote:
This completely depends on YOU. How YOU use your computer, how often your data changes, how much data in between backups you are willing to lose.
My personal strategy is to run a full backup on the first of the month and incrementals on days 8, 15, 22 & 27 of the month. On day 28 I run a defrag.
After a third full backup is completed and successfully verified, I have sent Macrium to delete the oldest "backup chain."
But it's different for Mom... She only turns her computer on a few times per month. So, for her Reflect only runs once per month. If it is the first month of a new quarter, a full backup is taken. During other months an incremental backup runs. Same for the cleanup, though - after a third full backup is completed and successfully verified the oldest backup chain is deleted automatically.