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How to continue an incremental backup after reinstalling ATI 2019?

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I have a backup script called "Backup_E", which is a daily scheduled incremental file/folder backup from one of my HDD, with a lot of specific settings and file/folders exclusions in its settings. This backup is done to an external HDD and it has 3 months of daily incremental files there.

Yesterday I uninstalled ATI 2019, but before I exported my backup scripts (save settings), which created a .zip file.

Today I reinstalled ATI 2019 and imported the backup script, which was imported perfectly.

But when trying to run "Backup_E" it's getting the error "The specified file does not exist":

If I click on "Ignore", it starts a new FULL backup and doesn't respect the last incremental file that is on the external HDD:

https://imgur.com/BQlRxol

 

At the same time, if I try to "Add existing backup", ATI 2019 creates a new backup script. But my current "Backup_E" script, as I said, has a lot of specific settings that I don't want to lose neither to manually redo all settings inside the newly created script.

Is there an option to "copy/paste" settings from one backup script to another, or something similar?

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There is an option to clone settings (not that I have ever needed to use it). Not much on it in the user guide - just the following:

Clone settings - creates a new empty backup box with the settings of the initial backup and named (1) [the initial backup name]. Change the settings, save them, and then click Back up now on the cloned backup box.

You access the option by right-clicking on the V symbol to the right of the backup you wish to clone. It apparently works quite well.

Unfortunately it does not achieve what you apparently wish to do - but may be a solution.

Ian 

My question is: How to continue an incremental backup with an existing backup script?

It seems a very basic matter. But it's not.

If you want to continue an incremental backup after doing a reinstall of ATI 2019 (assuming that you first uninstalled the same) then just re-importing the task settings will always create a new full backup file.

You would need to also copy back the C:\ProgramData\Acronis\TrueImageHome\Database folder contents so that all the current task history and activity data would be available for your backup tasks.

The database files can only be copied back when all the Acronis Services & Processes are not running.

Thanks for your response.

The purpose of uninstalling ATI 2019 was to test ATI 2020 beta. After I saw that 2020 is still extremely buggy, I reinstalled 2019, but with this problem where I can't continue an existing incremental backup using an existing script.

So, you're saying that, if I want to continue an existing incremental backup using an existing script, before uninstalling ATI 2019, I have first to backup the C:\ProgramData\Acronis\TrueImageHome\Database folder, and after reinstalling it, I have to restore this folder?

Yes or else restore your OS drive or partition back to before installing the 2020 beta app.

ATI 2019 is not compatible with the new .tibx file format used by ATI 2020.