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Acronis TrueImage and incremental backup

I have been very happy with Acronis TI 7. I have only done full image backups, and restored them. For my C drive, as long as I'm only using it for OS & software most of it doesn't change very often so I don't have to backup very often. But some things do get added on a daily basis, like the game-saves and profiles. If I do incremental backups in Acronis, does it add to the original image or create new image files that have to be somehow added during or after the restore of the full image? Is a few months worth of incremental add-ons more at risk to not restore successfully than a single full image recently made?

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For my system drive, it isn't very practical to do weekly full backup images, because it's 50GB we're talking about. I don't want to delete the original images because if a problem comes (like a virus or OS corruption) I might not be aware of it as soon as it happens, and I want to be able to go back to that clean state when everything was new. It's not a business, just a gaming and schoolwork computer. I was thinking of yearly full system backups (or after major additions or changes of software), and maybe monthly incrementals.

I'm going to try to direct user profile and My Documents and email stores and even gamesaves to the D drive which has a RAID mirror which should provide some level of protection for the stuff that changes daily. Ideally the system C drive backup is only for replacing the system setup and software, and no user data. That's my plan anyway. But there may be some small amount of change to C anyway, and so I'm curious about TrueImage 7 incremental backup because I haven't used it yet.