Question on understanding tibx files.
I'm running Acronis Backup v12.5 13400 on premise. The management server and all backup data is stored on a Dell NAS running Windows 2016. We've only had Acronis installed a couple of months. Outside of the NAS, the environment is all virtual. Servers are backed up using the VMware Agent for Windows running from the Dell NAS which connects to vCenter.
I'm documenting how to perform file level recovery following the instructions in the user guide, section 6.4.6 "Extracting files from Local Backups". I'm having trouble understanding the number of .tibx files I'm finding. The backup plan is of the entire server, with a Weekly Full, Daily Incremental and all 7 days of the week are selected. Weekly backups are retained 4 weeks, Incremental backups are retained 7 days.
When looking at the backup files, many of the servers have server-guid.tibx, server-guid-001.tibx, server-guid-002.tibx, server-guid-003.tibx, while others have also an 004.tibx. I've found a few with just the tibx and an 001.tibx. The only difference in the plans would be what day of the week the full backup is taken.
Why are there a different number of tibx files? I had thought that perhaps one of these was a full and the rest were incremental, but when you expand them, all of the .tibx files contain every recovery point for all 7 days. Which one should I tell people to use to recover a file when the date they need appears in all of them?
Any insight you could provide would be appreciated.

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