Acronis 2017 Recovery of Photos
I am trying to recover ALL of my family photos from the Acronis backups. Thank goodness I have been backing up with Acronis to begin with as my original Photos folder somehow disappeared. Anyways, I understand the whole backup file naming scheme, date. full, incremental...etc. I can see the first initial backup as full and it is 435Gb and then there are some incrementals and then another full with about 193Gb...etc. please refer to the image below. I have recovered the first full backup to its original folder on my PC, but how do I ensure that I have recovered ALL of my photos. I issue is, I add photos all of the time to the original "backed up folder" and then Acronis creates an incremental or after a certain amount of time a new full backup. My question is, how do I ensure from all of the backup files below that I have recovered EVERY photo I have added over the past 10 months? Do I recover every full backup and then delete the duplicates photos? Do I recover every full and incremental and do the same? I am planning on upgrading my HDDs soon and want to make sure I have copies of my families photos before I start changing out hardware. Thanks for your help!
To recover all files you should choose the last update (which may be an incremental one). It will then use the most recent full backup and subsequent incremental backups to restore the files to the position when the last incremental backup was made. If you wish to restore to the position at an earlier time just select the backup time and files at that date will be restored.
Ian
let me try that and see how the files compare, thank you very much
Hmm, that didn't seem to work. I chose the incremental Photos_inc_b1_s7_v1 dated 3/13/2018 from the image above and it only recovered 3408 images and did not recover any of the images from the original full backup of 435Gb dated 1/16/2018. Any other thoughts or ideas. my next step is to pull one of the subsequent full backups and see why the size dropped from 435Gb to 193Gb then do a compare. Thanks
One possibility is that somehow the 'original' photos were deleted at some point after the initial back-up, but why and how this would happen is unclear. Fortunately you have the earlier backup so you can recover it (preferably to a differnt location) and then merge the two. You may end up with some photos that you deliberately deleted subsequently but that is I suspect a minor issue.
Ian
Yes I am not sure what happened to the original photo folder, I can only guess that one of my kids accidentally deleted it. However it seems there would be a lot invovled with deleting a fodler that size. With that said, I have looked thru every full and incremental backup with the files that are listed above and it seems the orginal backup has the most images at about 34k, so I will keep those and I have restored some of the incrementals to replace the additions. I am going to offload the images to another source probably in the cloud or another LAN based storage at home just to be safe. These are my family photos and would hate to lose everything.
One last question, It seems I need to enable cleanup on backups as I found that I was running out of space on my NAS (that is why I am moving to new HDDs with more space), but I wanetd to find out what is the most recommended and efficient way to handle the backup scheme? Since I take a backup every week, I would assume that keeping two full backups and the 3 incrementals between should suffice (should equal a month or so)? Then delete after 3 full version? or do you think another scenario is more secure and efficient?
I can't thank you for all of your help, I appreciate it.
Please keep in mind these are photos, so incremental may not be the backup scheme of choice. It may just be better to take a full backup every time of differential, thanks again.