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I guess it depends a lot on which Symantec product you're using... <br />
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But in any case,one could do it by having seven separate jobs; the Saturday job (say) would be the full backup with a target of its directory, and then Sunday through Friday, you'd have one incremental backup job for each day, repeating on the week, and each would go to its designated directory.<br />
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If you're saying you never do full backups... well, good luck with that; it's not a good way to protect your data (unless the product you're using has the ability to create synthetic full backups).
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I guess it depends a lot on which Symantec product you're using...

But in any case,one could do it by having seven separate jobs; the Saturday job (say) would be the full backup with a target of its directory, and then Sunday through Friday, you'd have one incremental backup job for each day, repeating on the week, and each would go to its designated directory.

If you're saying you never do full backups... well, good luck with that; it's not a good way to protect your data (unless the product you're using has the ability to create synthetic full backups).

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we do full backups on friday night. &nbsp;If I set the backup to do overwrite one for each day will it then wipe the file and start fresh ?
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we do full backups on friday night.  If I set the backup to do overwrite one for each day will it then wipe the file and start fresh ?

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Best is to use the staging disk. this means backup will happen to one disk all the time, and then u can configure replcaition or disk copy to another portable disk. this i how i do with my other backup solutions.
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Best is to use the staging disk. this means backup will happen to one disk all the time, and then u can configure replcaition or disk copy to another portable disk. this i how i do with my other backup solutions.

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I am doing incremental backups to a portable disk drive but want each days backup in is own backup file. &nbsp;How can I make backupexec not continue a previous backup in the same backup file ?
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I am doing incremental backups to a portable disk drive but want each days backup in is own backup file.  How can I make backupexec not continue a previous backup in the same backup file ?

Symantec incremental backups

The term "Backup" means the methods and processes involved to copy computer data (system data as well as application data) to media other than the ones where the data originally live (disk, tape, optical, cloud). "Restore" in turn means the methods and processes involved in data recovery, i. e., bringing back copied computer data to their original location. Backup/Restore primarily serves as a means of protection against data loss, be it due to disaster, corruption or sabotage. It can also be used for recovering data from an earlier point in time and even for cloning machines or applications. There is a wide variety of backup/restore software available, from expensive commercial products to free or open source tools.