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Did backups over 11 days - 1 full and 4 incremental, using the rescue disk (GPT disk). To test the restore, fitted a new disk and tried to restore the whole disk, including disk signature.

It all went well, except that I chose the full restore, instead of the last incremental. The system was as it was 11 days ago

So, redid the restore, this time using the last incremental. After completion, tried to start the system, but this failed with a "no system" error.

Tried the same procedure a second time, with the same result.

So, the third time, restored the full backup again and tried to restore the incremental from within Windows 8. Although it appeared the work, as Acronis requested a reboot to continue, nothing was changed.

What should have been done to make this work correctly?

The notebook is a Sony Vaio SVS1512Z9EB, Windows 8

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Were the full backup and the incrementals all created by the same backup task?

Have you validated that incremental?

The full and incrementals were performed the same way. Added the incrementals to the existing full backup. However, the incrementals were not validated.

Tried the 3rd incremental (with validation) and the result was the same.

Then tried the previous full with 4 incrementals and again, no luck. Last try was the previous full backup, which worked.

So it would appear that the incrementals don't work

Erich Seidl wrote:

The full and incrementals were performed the same way. Added the incrementals to the existing full backup.

Again: Were the full backup and the incrementals all created by the same backup task?
From your description, it sounds as though a separate task or manual backup created the incrementals.

Sorry, perhaps I didn't fully understand your original question.

Since they were offline backups, they were manual tasks. I didn't think this would make any difference.

I later added the backups to online Acronis (within Windows 8), and they were both validated as backup 1 (1-4) and 2 (1-4)