Adding TIB files to ATI's internal database
Recently I had a system drive crash. It was my first true restore using ATI. It succeeded (thank you very much Acronis :-). However, I made several mistakes as I learned. In any case, somehow I ended up with some TIB files (entire, short chains actually) that are no longer in the database. These are not TIBs from after the crash, but these backups were all done before the crash, so the restored ATI internal DB ought to know about them.
Is there a way to add orphaned TIB files to the ATI internal DB?
The short answer to your questions is: YES.
Unfortunately, in my panic over the last few days (when I "lost" everything.....thankfully I'm whole again after 4 days of work....thank you Acronis :-), I manually deleted files and even entire chains to be sure the TIB files I had and what ATI "thought" I had were the same (yes, I used the "clean up versions" facility to delete files). So I have no examples now. But once the panic was over, I realized I could have saved myself time if I had known that I could add an existing TIB file that is consistent with the backup scheme into the internal DB. As it was, when I had a situation like that, I just did full backups, and/or deleted all TIBs that did not have a consistent chain.
So my question now is a rhetorical one. I'd like to know if this is possible in case I run into the problem in the future. The case I'm talking about is the simplistic one where the backup task names haven't changed, and the chain file names are consistent, and all files live/lived in the same folder. If there were DB entries without files, I allowed ATI to "ignore" them which removed the entry from the DB. If there were extra files, then I didn't know what to do since I didn't have the answer to my query above, so I just deleted TIBs until I got something consistent with what the DB said (or could be made to say by doing additional backups).
P.S. I use only full and diff backups....no incremental.
Sandy, if all the backup files belong to the same tasks shown in the ATI GUI, then first check what dates/times are shown in the Recover point drop-down list for the task in the GUI. Look at the dates / times and see which of your backup files these match up to.
If you find that the drop-down list has fewer entries than you have files for, then you should be able to use the (hidden) 'Add existing backup' option by clicking on the caret (V) symbol and then select the last file for each 'missing' version chain. You do not need to add in each individual file normally!
