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Trying to delete old backups using acronis 2018, now all of my back ups are gone. Anyway to recover?

 

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As far as I am aware Acronis True Image itself does not have a utility that will help. Acronis Disk Director has the Recovery Expert, but that is designed to resurrect deleted partitions. You need tool specifically designed to recover lost or damaged files. MiniTool Partition Wizard has a data recovery module, but it its restrictions in free version means you would have to go for the paid version. I use UFS Explorer Standard Recovery which is quite powerful.

The critical thing is not to attempt any action that would write to the drives from which the backups were deleted, as this will dramatically reduce the chances of recovery.

In all likelihood you will not be able to recover full backup chains, as one or more may be missing. There is also the problem that the recovery software may be able to recover the file, but not the name for the file which makes things rather difficult. If the backups are absolutely critical, then you may have to go to a file recovery specialist (be prepared for an impressively large cost).

Ian

Another free option is RECUVA by the maker of CCleaner. Recovery of such deleted files is only possible if nothing has been overwritten to the sectors in the drive where the original files were. To increase recovery chances of deleted files, stop using the disk where the files used to live and attempt the recovery ASAP. If the old tibs aren't important and a new backup can take there place, I'd just go that route and start making a new backup ASAP.

A few years ago I accidentally deleted directory with hundreds of subdirectories many thousands of files.  Several of the free recovery products could recover most of the files but made a total mess of the directory structure.  Active@ File Recovery by LSoft was able to recover the directory structure and all but a handful of files.  It isn't free, but at about $30 (US) is was well worth it for me.

I didn't have an ATI backup of those files because of a major blunder.  I months earlier had moved them to the wrong drive - to the destination rather than source of ATI backups. 

As far as paid products go, that is a great tool Patrick.  I've used it at work in the past too.

Also, Acronis Revive has been pretty impressive too.  It's not free, but the trial is definitely worth checking out to see if purchasing is warranted.

https://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/more/revive/

 

It had not occurred to me that Acronis Revive could be a solution.

If the data is particularly important, if I had a spare HDD/SSD I would make a sector by sector backup before trying recovery.