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In the Backup screen, Acronis will ask for "Backup version 1/2/3", but I have no idea what that means or what it is looking for.

Better messaging and guidance is needed here by the product.

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Tim...could you take a screen capture of the error message?  It would help us analyze your problem.

Tim, you are only normally given error messages for missing backup versions when you have manually deleted such files from your backup drive using such as Explorer.

The reason why the error is given is because ATI records information about backup version files in its internal Database and looks here when you are working with the task that created those files.  Deleting files using Explorer does not update the database hence the error(s) given.

Running a Validation of the backup task will also show the same messages and offer an Ignore option which will try to reconcile the database information with the status of actual files found.