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I'm sure the Moderators will ban me soon for such dumb questions...

The Acronis True Image is set up with the Backup scheme as:

Daily, Incremental, Create a full version after every 5 incremental versions, Store no more than 2 recent versions

It's been running this scheme without problems for a few weeks. My question is what am I looking at when I access the backup disk? I've uploaded two jpgs. One shows the Local Disc G (backup disk) file structure, the second displays what is in the BORG17645.tibx folder. What has me curious is this: Why are the files in the BORG17645-0003.tibx folder and the BORG17645-0004.tibx folder exactly the same (date, size, etc...) as the files in the BORG17645.tibx folder? Why have three folders with 3 identical sets of backup files? (I'm sure I simply don't understand how it works, but I'd like to know).

Thank you for your help.

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Baron, what you are seeing is correct for the way .tibx files work with their associated metadata. This means that each .tibx file will show exactly the same content for the complete backup version chain that has been created, this can include multiple full and incremental backups.

This is one reason why you should now never delete .tibx files using Explorer as doing so does not update the metadata and internal database information for your backups, and will result in errors being thrown.

I'm sure the Moderators will ban me soon for such dumb questions...

There is no such thing as a dumb question ... when it comes to a complex product like Acronis. 

Ian