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Using "newer" incremental backups after restore?

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Hello,

lets say that I have a chain of a few incremental backups, e.g. 1 to 5, 5 being the newest. Now, when I backup the system disk back to version 3, then - for true image - the time is set back and version 3 is the newest backup version that was most recently added to the backup chain.
But, however, on the backup disk there are also versions 4 and 5 of my backup, which may contain data I would like to restore. But, as these are currently not part of my backup chain, I cannot restore from them.
Is there a way to add them to the backup chain after restore, so that TI would add the next backup version as version 6 (and not as version 4, as it would try to do now) ?

Many thanks
Thorsten

I am using TI Home 2013. Not sure about the build.

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Your best chance of less hassle and good backups and my recommendtion is to stop using your existing task and create a new task and start over due to the restore. Here is an example of how to use custom cleanup so the deletion of old backups are automatic on your new task.

GH12. Create Custom Incremental Backup Scheme. 6 Inc, Keep 4 chains. The 6-4 is an example only with user choice for whatever number of chains to be retained best fits the individual needs.

To answer your question, this is from the user guides:
If you are creating a new backup, and there is already a file with the same name, the program does not delete the old file, but adds to the new file the "-number" suffix, for example, my_documents_inc_b2_s2_v1-1.tib.

So, if you used Inc S3 to restore your system, and you run a new backup using the old task, the name and numbering on the new inc backup will be
S3_v1-1.tib
S4-v1_1.tib
S5_v1-1.tib
etc continued.

The old files and numbering will remain unchanged as any new files would have their own numbering sequence.

I believe or my guess is that if you were to restore the new S3_v1-1, it would additionally restore the Full-S1 and Inc s2 and S3 from the prior backups.
You need to test this for your own satisfaction as I have NOT tested what I have written here.

My recommendtion is to start ove with a new task and stop using the task used with the restore.