Create Full Backup on Local Drive then move Incrementals to NAS
I've recently upgraded from TIH2014 to TIH2018 but have been unsuccessful in making the backup procedure I used in TIH2014 work on TIH2018,
My procedure is this - I first create a full backup of my laptop to a locally USB external drive. I then move the drive to my NAS device (a WD MyCloud) then reconfigure the backup destination to a Share on the NAS. I could then perform incrementals to the USB external drive that is now attached to the NAS.
When I try the same procedure using TIH2018 it will not perform an incremental backup once the backup drive has been moved behind the NAS. Instead TIH2018 insists on recreating a full backup again. That doesn't work for me since I don't have the network bandwidth to support that amount of data transfer in a timely manner. I have also tried to remove the backup from TIH2018 once the drive is behind the NAS then add it as an existing backup in it's new location. The addition seems to work fine (I am able to open the location from TIH2018) but subsequent backups end with error "the backup location was not found on the destination drive".
Help! If I can't get this to work I will be forced to revert to TIH2014.

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Keith, welcome to these User Forums.
Please see topic: Perform first full backup localy, then change to remote incremental backups (FTP) raised by another user recently that may help with your situation if you can adapt it to do so.
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Keith...welcome to the user forum. Here's how I do it....boot using rescue media, then create the full disk backup. Then remove the usb drive that contains the .tib file and attach it to the NAS. You should then be able to copy the .tib file from the usb drive to the NAS using the NAS interface, not Windows explorer. Once the .tib file resides on your NAS, you can add the .tib as an existing backup. After adding the .tib as an existing backup, you can configure the backup task as an incremental and schedule it like you want.
When you create the full backup using rescue media, ATI database has no record of the backup being created...which is why you can then add it as an existing backup.
Regards,
FtrPilot
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Thanks for the suggestion FtrPilot. The approach you suggested works, although it is more cumbersome than using ATIH directly from Windows without having to first boot the rescue disk. Still, it gets me around the problem I was having
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Keith...I am glad it worked for you.
Another consideration worth thinking about is how to perform a "restore" or "recovery" from a backup that resides on your NAS (total disk failure). In my case, I have 2 laptop computers...so my plan is to attach a usb drive to the NAS and copy the backup files to the usb drive using the good computer. If you only have one computer, then the solution may not be straight forward.
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