Restoring Backups with incrementals
If I have a full and incrementals 1 through 3 can I restore to a particular incremental instead of the whole archive and if so how. Thanks

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norman ziegelmeyer wrote:If I have a full and incrementals 1 through 3 can I restore to a particular incremental instead of the whole archive and if so how. Thanks
Do you realize that if you choose, say inc. 2 then what gets restored will be inc 2 &1 plus the full?
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DwnNDrty,
Good point. I was thinking that the whole archive meant the entire image set (Full through Incremental #3), but it may have been referring to only the contents of a specific Incremental backup (excluding the Full).
Specific files from a specific Incremental would need to be restored as files.
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If I understand, When only the full is selected no Incr's are restored only the original Full Backup, if Incr #1 is selected then it and the Original Full Backup will be restored, if Incr #2 is selected then Full Backup & Incr #1 & Incr #2 will be restored and so on. Is this correct?
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Norman,
Double check the file sizes on the backup in question. Are all of them 4,194,304 kb and the last one may be smaller. Usually, when a #1 backup file is listed, it is a split of one full backup. A true first incremental is usually numbered as 2 and a 1 is not listed because the full is internally considered as 1.
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norman ziegelmeyer wrote:If I understand, When only the full is selected no Incr's are restored only the original Full Backup, if Incr #1 is selected then it and the Original Full Backup will be restored, if Incr #2 is selected then Full Backup & Incr #1 & Incr #2 will be restored and so on. Is this correct?
Correct!
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