Data Recovery and Disk Utilities Forum @R-TT

I'm not entirely sure how backup images vs backup sets work, and their relation to the task scheduler. Here is what I would like to do, which I think is pretty simple:

• create a new full backup of the boot drive every Monday morning at 6:00 am
• create a new incremental backup of the boot drive every Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat and Sun morning at 6:00 am
• keep the most recent 14 days of daily backups
• keep the most recent 12 weeks of full backups

This effectively gives me daily snapshots for the most recent 14 days, and weekly snapshots for the most recent 3 months. How can I configure backup sets and the scheduler to achieve this?

My suggestion: You may use not only the R-Drive Image built-in scheduler, but also some .bat files with system commands like copy, del, etc. You may specify them on the Backup options panel.

I've been using Bourne shell scripts (under cygwin) to help out with certain tasks. Does R-Drive Image pass any sort of command line arguments to the supplied programs or batch files (e.g., filename of the backup set) to help them along? Or do I need to hardcode that information into the script?

Yes it passes, although you need to close them in "".
If you want to use .bat files, you need to use cmd.exe /c before the bat files.
R-Drive Image sets its own environment parameters. See R-Drive Image Help -> Technical Information -> Creating Consistent Point-in-Time Backups.