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Confused by backup relationships

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Hi,
Unfortunately, my laptop crashed. Fortunately, I have created a backup-job to my NAS and want to restore one of the backups now. I use my other PC to browse the backups since I decided to restore to a new and larger SSD.

I have attached a list of the backups.
When I click the latest one (28.00.19) I get an error message (image attached).
When I click the second latest backup it asks me to define the volume with number 1. So I select the oldest backup from 28.09.18. But then it asks me for the backup with number 2, 3 up to 4 and I get selecting the second, third, up to fourth oldest backup. At the fourth oldest backup it complains about the file being damaged. I have no clue why I have to play this game anayways since it shoul be a differential backup!

How can I find the latest correct backup?

Thank you!

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Johannes, welcome to these public User Forums.

Please see the ATI 2019 User Guide: Backup file naming - where it states:

If you are creating a new backup, and there is already a file with the same name, the program does not delete the old file, but adds to the new file the "-number" suffix, for example, my_documents_inc_b2_s2_v1-2.tib.

Your screen image of your backup files shows a number of instances where the above has happened for a number of your differential backup files, i.e. diff_b2_s5_v1-3.tib after an earlier v1-2.tib for the same chain.

At this point I can only suggest trying to do a Validation for your backup chain to see what errors this flags up?

After this, try copying the initial NAS-Backup_Ultrabook_full_b2_s1_v1.tib plus the most recent NAS-Backup_Ultrabook_full_b2_s6_v1.tib files to an external USB drive, then try the recovery to your new SSD drive using that external drive.

Note: you may still get given some messages about 'cannot find version X' but click on ignore or cancel to these messages to see if the recovery will proceed.