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does FULL backup instead of Incremental

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Did a full backup (partition, D drive) and want next 10 to be incremental, followed by another full backup.  What I'm seeing is the next time the backup job started (per schedule, 1 week later) it did a full backup and not an incremental. I have attached screenshots of the backup activity page, the schedule page, the scheme page, and the logfile.  Can anybody explain why I got another full backup and not an incremental?

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Ron, the only thing that stands out for me from your screen images is that you do not have automatic cleanup enabled which may suggest that you are manually deleting unwanted backup files outside of the ATI GUI?

Have you tried just asking the task to 'Back up now' to prompt a further backup before the scheduled time?  Does this also create another new Full backup or an Incremental one?

Have you been changing the options / settings on the Backup Scheme page, i.e. the number of Incrementals to increase or decrease it to the current value of 10?  This too has been known to reset counts etc.