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Backup consolidation not chosen in incremental mode

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Hello!

I use Acronis True Image 2016 with a backup plan in incremental mode with automatic deleting old backup files.

But now, in the email notification i can read "starting backup consolidation". But i have no consolidation activated?! and i don't know how to activate or disable it?!

I do not want to consolidate the files, i want to delete old files?!

13    Acronis True Image    19.10.2016 10:08:08    Ausstehende Aktion 172 hat begonnen: 'Volume-Image erstellen'.

14    Acronis True Image    19.10.2016 10:08:08    Die folgenden Backups wurden erfolgreich erstellt: "ftp://192.168.178.239:21/kuralpe/MAURER_inc_b5_s11_v1.tib"

"ftp://192.168.178.239:21/kuralpe/MAURER_inc_b5_s11_v2.tib"

15    Acronis True Image    19.10.2016 10:08:10    Backup-Archiv validieren Speicherort:                 "ftp://192.168.178.239:21/kuralpe/MAURER_inc_b5_s11_v2.tib

16    Acronis True Image    19.10.2016 10:08:10    Ausstehende Aktion 4 hat begonnen: 'Backup-Archiv validieren'.

17    Acronis True Image    19.10.2016 12:12:45    Backup-Archiv konsolidieren Speicherort:                 "ftp://192.168.178.239:21/kuralpe/MAURER_inc_b5_s11_v2.tib" Ziel:                 "ftp://192.168.178.239:21/kuralpe/MAURER_inc_b5_s11_v2_2D74CA3C-E0DD-4C6…

Why Row 17??

Can anyone help?

Best Regards

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Alexander, welcome to these user forums.

The term consolidation is misleading in the context of ATIH 2016 as this is a throw back to earlier versions where consolidation was actually done, but Acronis has moved away from trying to combine backup archive images and now consolidation is used to indicate that automatic cleanup is taking place.

From your log file snippet, you have got automatic validation enabled for the backup which is then followed in step 17. by Acronis looking at the automatic cleanup actions that may be needed, which will depend on the parameters you have set, i.e. to create a new full backup after X incremental versions, and to keep no more than Y backup version chains.

The file names shown in your log data suggest that there is some file size splitting active due to backing up to a FTP target location, hence why you are showing file names: MAURER_inc_b5_s11_v1.tib and MAURER_inc_b5_s11_v2.tib in this backup version chain.