Backup and recover settings
Just notice there is a new setting for backup and recovery of settings - it saves the setting in a zip file. It was in the beta but I did not notice it. Do not recall any comments about it during beta testing.
The configuration files that are included are indicated in the screenshot below.


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Just gave this new backup / import settings option a try out while also removing my 2018 Beta license information.
First took the new option to 'Save settings to file'
Did a normal uninstall of ATIH 2018 plus cleaned up any leftover files, restarted the computer then reinstalled ATIH 2018 and signed in with my Acronis account credentials.
Then took the new option to 'Import settings from file' which put back all my Backup tasks in the main GUI plus also found other backup files on my attached drives.
Took a couple of minutes to cleanup / delete / remove the unwanted tasks added to the GUI.
Note: No backup history shown for my tasks and all non Cloud tasks show as if they had never been run at all but without showing a Reconfigure option! The Cloud tasks show the correct last backup date/time plus show the information about content types etc, but no Activity information and took some time to load Recovery information.
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Today I saved the backup settings under the latest ATI 2018 beta build. I then completely uninstalled the beta, ran the cleanup and installed the release version. After licensing it, I imported the saved backup settings. All my backups were there and they seemed to be correct with respect to schedule and options. But there was no activity history associated with them. I figured that history was lost. I moved all the existing backup files so that my destination backup folders were empty. I then manually ran my scheduled backups to get a new full backup.
I got my backups, but now in looking with the log viewer, it seems to be indicating that it might have been looking for the prior backup. I'm not sure. Did I miss something in the update process that could have kept the existing backup chain?
Regardless, I feel better about starting from scratch with this version. I'll do a manual cleanup later.
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