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I can understand the apprehension in keeping all of those eggs in one basket. I'm considering a dual approach. When I used Acronis in the past, it stored all system backups as separate files. I would go into the backup drive and remove the older ones to make room for the more recent. Not sure if the 2016 version makes additions or writes entire new files each time. If Acronis only updates an existing image I see this as being more efficient.
I used to use a backup image program that would let me define "jobs" and then schedule them to run at regular intervals. I could tell it how many versions of image files to keep, and then it would erase the oldest one automatically to make space for new. So I always had "x" generations available. Just need to check that the jobs are running. This method worked well when the backup drive was always attached.
I would like to make copies of the main files in an un imaged format so that I could simply save them to new drives if replacing a computer.
The simplest way to do this would be to use a scheduled cloud backup service, if you are always online. Otherwise a manually triggered backup if you need to plug into the net first.
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