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power outage during backup

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I had a power outage (rare here) during an Incremental.  Afterwards when I turned on the PC I was (dumbly) surprised to find the Incremental was in progress.  I had forgotten I enabled "Error handling: Repeat attempt if a backup fails", so I Stopped the Incremental and forced a new chain (that is, a Full).

But now I'm thinking that since it was a repeat Incremental (instead of a resumed interrupted one) it probably would have been fine to add the Incremental to the existing Chain.

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Coyote, difficult to predict the outcome of random power outages and their impact on active applications.  I suspect that ATI would have started a new Incremental backup after power was restored and you would either have had a .v1-2.tib file (if the interrupted backup had already got as far as creating a file) or the incremental would have been fine.