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How to tell if tib file is a full, incremental, or differential backup ?

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Is there a way to tell if a particular *.tib file is a full...differential...or incremental Acronis backup ? I can not seems to find a way either in Acronis Main Screen or thru Windows 7 explorer screens ?

Can you identify what type of backup a particular *.tib file was created as ?

Thanks...TRinAZ

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If you have a custom naming scheme for your TIB files, you lose the most obvious way to identify which one is which. With the default naming convention, a TIB file finishing by a number in parentheses is a full, a TIB file finishing by an integer is a partial.
You can see also this information in the backup explorer window (click on explore all versions or explore and recover in the ATI backup list), in the bottom timeline when you mouse over the squares.

To find out which type of backup is a tib file, a simple way is to try to mount the archive. If it works, it is a disk and partition backup. If it doesn't, it is a file backup.

I have the same problem as Tim R. I started in October upgrading from AI 2010 to AHI 2011 and it did not give me the option of diff. vs. incr. backups; at least I couldn't find it. (2011 was much more cryptic and hard to set up than 2010.) But backups started and I didn't want to fool with it anymore for fear of screwing things up!
Now I'm running out of space on my backup drive. Pat L.'s post was confusing since there are no parentheses on any file names. Are all my backups partial??

I do weekly backups. My initial backup file name is My_partitions2011-10-20.tib at 97Gb.
The most recent weekly file is My_partitions2011-12-21.tib.
Size of each weekly file ranges between 386Kb and 71Gb. (My C:/ drive has 137Gb on it now.)

I want to delete intermediate backup files if they are differential to free up room on my drive. Any clarification would be helpful.
Thanks!

Glen,

Because you have a custom naming scheme, my post about parenthesis and stuff doesn't apply :-) See the first sentence of post #2.
A unexpected but easy way to see which backup is incremental or differential is to do the following:
- launch ATI and to to the tools section,
- click on mount an image, or convert to VHD

A window will pop up with the list of backups tracked by ATI and whether they are full, incremental or differentials.

If you don't see a backup there, but it is on the disk, it doesn't mean that you cannot recover it. It just means that ATI doesn't track it any longer. You can try to add it back to the backup list.

From inside Window/TI this is one method. In picture #2, clicking any the files links displayed along the bottom of the screen will show the type.
Also, if booted from the CD, each file listing will show the type of backup.

Thanks Pat!
I now see a list with a descriptor of the backup types. I discovered that occasionally it started fresh with a new Full Backup without my intervention. I was having some router connectivity issues recently (I've since replaced the router) which conceivably could have messed up a Differential, and so it started fresh with a Full the next time. Just a guess. anyway, now I know what I can safely delete and still have a good backup ready 'just in case.'
Best regards,
Glen