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I have made an Acronis bootable media and backup all in one on a 32GB usb flash drive. Oddly the backup of the C drive that was created was divided into 7 my_partitions tib files. Whereas when I make a backup of my C drive in Windows, the backup consisted of just one file called my_partitions tib file. What is going on?

I also notice that when I open Acronis program in Windows and go to the main screen there is now a new box that shows the backup of the C drive in my usb flash drive and there is a tab saying Back up now. Does this mean that if I use this tab to backup the C drive regularly on my 32 GB USB flash drive, it will just add new programs or changes that I make on my C drive instead of making a second full backup ?
Clearly I would very much like this to happen since the flash drive only has 32 GB and it only has 6 GB space left.

I have copied the backup of my documents that I have in my external hard drive and pasted it in the My backups folder of the flash drive. If Windows 7 stopped working and refused to boot up, will I be able to restore this documents backup file from the flash drive using the Acronis bootable media that is on my flash drive ?
I am wondering whether it is necessary to create the backup of my documents using the Acronis bootable media program for it to restore it.

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When ATI creates a backup on a FAT32 (FAT) disk, it has to divide in chunks smaller than 4GB (2GB).

That is right, by default ATI will create first a new full backup, then incremental changes only. You can customize this scheme by clicking on "operations", edit backup settings. Click on the blue "version chain" link. While you are at it, make sure that all partitions of the disk containing the c: partitions are included in the backup. Since you have only 6GB left, you should change the scheme if you want to update the backup.

Why don't you use a bigger UBS disk to store the backup? You can still use the (or a smaller) flash drive to boot with Acronis on it.

If the backup of your documents has been made by Acronis True Image (ATI), you will be able to restore with ATI. Otherwise, no.