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Validatiing Only the Latest Version Chain?

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Is there a way to validate only the latest version chain?

For example, if we have a retention period of 4 months, and we do nightly incremental backups with a full backup every month, we'd only want to validate from the most recent full backup onward.  We're using the version 11 (separate files) format.

So we would like:

January 1st - Full backup, validation of this full backup file only. (1)
January 2nd - January 31st - incremental backups, validation of January full backup and all January incremental files afterward. (1,2; 1,2,3; 1,2,3,4; ... 1,2,...,31;)

February 1st - Full backup, validation of this full backup file only. (1)
February 2nd - February 28th (or 29th) - incremental backups, validation of February full backup and all incremental files afterward.  (1,2; 1,2,3; 1,2,3,4; ... 1,2,...,28/29;)

etc.

I believe this is what was done in the previous version we had (vmProtect 9 / Acronis Backup for VMware).

With 12.5 it seems like it validates everything always.  This means that with a retention period of just a few months, it's impossible to validate our nightly backups.  The validation takes longer and longer to the point that it will never finish within 24 hours (when the next backup starts).

Validating a full month's version chain is manageable in our environment.  Validating three full months of version chains is not.  Once a new full backup happens, we don't care about validating the old full backups or the incremental backups that depend on them.  We have copies on raid, external drives, and cloud storage. 

Unfortunately, it looks like we're forced to choose between retention and validation.

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Brian hello,

Thank you for using Acronis Backup 12.5!

We have not yet implemented a feature to validate only last chain of backups yet, but I am going to pass your idea to our developers. The more feedbacks on this feature we have, the more important the issue is.

For now, you can validate a separate backup or the whole archive, incl. all the chains.

I hope we will see this feature rolling out in one of the next updates.

Let me know if there are any other questions I can help you with.