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Interrupted backup generates problem.

While I was in a hotel, my laptop started a backup in the cloud. The backup was interrupted maybe because I put the laptop to hibernate. A backup of only 2 GB was made instead of the usual 185.

Now I return home and ATI is backing up as if there was nothing in the cloud. That is to say that instead of delaying approximately one hour as always it seems that it will take 3 days.

How can I delete the small backup so that an incremental backup is now made?

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Norberto,

A backup of only 2 GB was made instead of the usual 185.  

185 what? 2GB compared to 185GB would indicate that only the changes were made as expected.  2GB is relatively small in many cases if you are backing up the entire OS drive.  Windows changes, updates, etc. could easily account for 2GB of recent changes on a full disk backup - as could other things like an iTunes backup, adding music, pictures, videos, etc.  Ultimately, 2GB really isn't that much in the grand scheme of a full disk backup - we don't know what your backup was configured for either though as you didn't say.

If there is a large change in data (a major Windows upgrade, defrag was run on the system, or something like that), there could be more to backup than usual.  Or, perhaps, just ignore the current backup time and let it calculate and run for a bit to sync up and maybe it will just backup what is needed.  I wouldn't pay much attention to the backup timer initially as it has to check for changes and fluctuates based on available bandwidth - give it a little while (like an hour maybe) and see if it still such a large backup time.

I'd recommend you contact technical support if you believe there is an actual issue though.  There is no user configuration to change the backup behavior of the cloud once it's been configured and started running. It is only supposed to backup the delta (basically incremental for life) after the first initial full is complete.