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Hi All.  Just getting going here and have a question on validation.  Let's say I have a backup followed by 4 incremental back ups.  Does the validation go through the backup, then the backup + incremental 1, then the backup + incremental 1 + incremental 2, and so on or does it go from the backup to incremental 1 to incremental 2 through to incremental 4?

Just trying to get a sense of how much time a validation may take if I have large back ups.

Thanks!

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http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATI2016/#90.html#o85…

Validation

An operation that checks whether you will be able to recover data from a particular backup version.

When you select for validation…

  • full backup version - the program validates the full backup version only.
  • differential backup version - the program validates the initial full backup version and the selected differential backup version.
  • an incremental backup version - the program validates the initial full backup version, the selected incremental backup version, and the whole chain (if any) of backup versions to the selected incremental backup version. If the chain contains one or more differential backup versions, the program validates (in addition to the initial full backup version and the selected incremental backup version) only the most recent differential backup version in the chain and all subsequent incremental backup versions (if any) between the differential backup version and the selected incremental backup version.