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backup failed - previous backup inadvertently deleted

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ATI '18

While cleaning up my backup media, I inadvertently deleted the most recent full backup of one of my drives.  Now the backup plan for that drive generates an error.  When I try to "Back up Now" it chugs for a while then gives me an error that it cannot find the previous backup.

How do I get the application to perform a full backup on that drive again and then continue with that backup plan?

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BTW, it was a hard delete - not stored in the recycle bin

 

You can either validate the job and then tell it to ignore the missing files which should result in a new backup after.

Or, clone the backup job settings, pick the source and destination again and start with a new backup task and delete the old one.

How do you validate the job and tell it to ignore the missing files?

Click on the Validate option in the main ATI GUI menu for your task and when a missing file is found by the validation process, a pop-up error message will be shown where there should be an option given to Ignore the missing file(s).

I don't see that option (running 2019 now), only options available for the Rename, Clone Settings, and Delete.

Here is the error message I'm getting, but the options make no sense:

Retry   :  goes into mode of looking for that backup again
Cancel:  cancels the backup request
Browse: allows me to look for a file which doesn't exist.

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I don't see that option (running 2019 now), only options available for the Rename, Clone Settings, and Delete.

If those are your only options, then the best way forward is as Bobbo suggested earlier, and to use the option to 'Clone settings', then delete the old task from the GUI, followed by renaming the cloned task and checking all the settings are still as required, then running the task to start off afresh with a new full backup.