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Create new instruction set for restoring by validating from Win Explore

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I have done Custom/Full (not incremental) backups of Files and Folders, since first purchasing True Image in 2009. I now have 2016. Fairly early on I figured out that a given .tib file is restorable only if it belongs to an existing backup instruction set in True Image. Also, if just one numerical file is damaged and deleted within a given instruction set, THEN none of the other tib files also belonging to that set can be restored. The dilemma was that, if you have just one current instruction set, and if just one .tib file is problematic and has to be deleted, then you have zero restorable TIB files. My previous workaround was to create several instruction sets, so that hopefully at least one of them has all its tib files in good numerical order, etc. That was awkward and a lot of work. I have, I think, discovered a better workaround, and I wonder if others have also, or even if TI support has published it: A given .tib file not associated with a current backup instruction set can be restored by the following: Go to Windows File Explorer, right click on the .tib file to restore from, choose Validate--then a one-file backup instruction set is created in TI 2016. This means that any single .tib file can be restored from, whether it is or is not associated with a backup instruction set already. This is major for me. Have others also used this idea? Has TI Support mentioned it? Or am I just now figuring out what 'everybody else' already knows?

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Tommy, if you are only creating Full backup image files, then each one of these .TIB files can be used independently to the others.  

It is only when you create Incremental backup files that these are then interdependent on the whole backup chain being intact, where the loss of a single incremental file from the set will render that set broke from that point forward.

With differential backup chains, then only the initial Full backup file plus any differential file is required for a complete backup chain.

In ATIH 2016 (and 2015 & 2017) there is an option at the bottom of the main GUI panel which will allow you to add any existing backup file by selecting the .tib file - you can see this option on the right of the Add new backup option - see image below (from ATIH 2017)

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Note: you need to click on the caret V to see this option.