Proper way to recover/restore data from an incremental backup
Using Acronis TI Home 2010
I must be tired from all this re-installing OS business I'm having to do on my computer, but since this is the first time I've used Acronis 2010's recovery feature, I'm a little confused. I would swear when using Acronis TI 2009 all I had to do was select the full backup archive (1st archive) when I had incremental backups, and everything in that backup was restored to whatever location I chose. For 2010, it seems as if I select the main/full backup archive, I'm only getting data restored from that time period (which makes sense, but like I said, I could swear in 2009 it was different). For example I have a folder with a full backup, and 2 incremental backups. Do I have to select each incremental backup to recover/restore - maybe just select the last incremental backup which would include everything in that archive - any particular order for recovering incremental backups? I've looked through help F1, and I'm not finding what I need - tried searching online, but nothing specific. Maybe I should just go back to TI 2009.
Right after I posted this question, I did a test by creating a folder (testFolder) with a blank txt file (file1.txt) - created a backup via the interface - added file2.txt to the folder - created incremental backup - added text to file1.txt to change its file size - created incremental backup.
I tested two ways in recovery. First, I went through the recovery interface, chose to backup an archive, searched for archive, once added to the queue list, I right-clicked the main title of the archive (ie. I right-clicked on [name of archive])
[name of archive]
[name of backup.tib]
[name of backup2.tib]
[name of backup3.tib]
chose recover - everything recovered properly.
Second test was not using the Acronis interface - open windows explorer where backup archive is - right-clicked the last backup file (backup3.tib) - everything recovered properly. I'm sure you know all this, I'm just including for the sake of the post and to mention how I feel this process (if I remember correctly) isn't the same in Acronis TI 2009 or 2008 Echo - FYI