Full Backup to Incremental Backup

[TelecommAnalyst]

Hi, Quick question (I am new to backupExec)

I need to perform a fresh new backup. No backups were ever run since the software was installed. I would like to perform incremental backups. Do I set a full backup one night and then incremental the next night? Or do I just schedule an Incremental from the start? Will an incremental backup job perform a full backup first? I would like to keep it automated.

[RoninV]

Thanks for your assistance.

I just setup two new jobs, one to do a full backup every Friday, and the other doing incrementals M-Th.

I'm checking out the forum for issues regarding Exchange. In the meantime, I've configured the handling of Exchange as follows:

Exchange server backup method: Full-Database & Logs (flush committed logs)
Mailbox backup method: Full-Back up messages - reset archive bit

What do you think?