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Recover backup history after a restore

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Just restored my Windows 10 system drive from disk image backup (went great)

So now, the only problem is that since I restored my system drive to a point in time last week, Acronis doesn't "remember" existing backups of my other drives that happened after the restore (and of course, it wouldn't).  My question is:  Is there a way to get Acronis to re-discover my other backups.

 

Here's a timeline, if it helps:

1/22:  Backup taken of my c: drive

1/23: Backup taken of my d: drive

1/28:  Windows update leaves my machine unbootable, restore c: from 1/22 backup

 

Now the fun part:

since I restored from 1/22, Acronis doesn't know about the 1/23 backup.  I'm doing  incremental backups on d:, so I don't want the chain to break.  Is there a way to Acronis to re-discover d:'s backup history?

 

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JM, the only ways that I can think of here would be as follows:

If you have a backup of your C:\ProgramData\Acronis folder structure from after the 1/23 backup activity, you could restore that back to bring back that activity information.

Alternatively, remove the backup task settings for your 1/23 backup (not any files), then use the option to Add existing backup and select the 1/23 incremental backup file to be added as a task.

The other option here is to leave things as they are and when your backup task for D: runs, it will continue the current incremental scheme but will find that the 1/23 file already exists so will use the same name but with v1-2.tib for the name and will contain all the changes since the previous incremental (before 1/23) (not referencing the 1/23 file).

JM,  Whenever I perform a restore like you did, immediately after boot up, I remove all ATI tasks.  Don't delete the files, just remove the tasks.  

Then to restore the other drives, you can boot from rescue media and perform the restore, or you can add the backup as an existing backup, then perform the restore. (Steve's item 2 above).

I don't like Steve's item 3 above, which is why I remove all ATI tasks.

 

In reply to by truwrikodrorow…

Thank you Steve:  I guess the last option will probably be good enough.  I'm not worried about the redundancy, but I did want to make sure the the chain of incremental backups would retain their integrity.