Skip to main content

Acronis Needs to Flag the Major Changes in Using ATI that Come with ATI 2020 as a Result of the New Backup Format

Thread needs solution

I just started with ATI 2020 after years of ATI use (Entire PC Backup) and had a chat to be sure I understood what was going on.  Apparently, instead of one external USB hard drive after another each containing successive sets of a full backup file with associated increment files, one set after another, version after version, a file made with each backup made, there will now be just one set of full plus increment files on a drive which will expand in size with each backup (more slowly, yes?) until that drive is full, at which time a new drive will have to be started (a new backup task), but one can still recover each individual, backed-up document or application file, as it existed on ones computer at the time of each backup made.  (It boggles the mind just to state it.)

At a minimum, the above needs to be addressed at the start of Section 1.3 of the ATI 2020 User Guide to help orient the user's mind.

0 Users found this helpful

Agreed.  As is with most changes a learning curve is a downside.

The behavior of the new backup format is significantly different than behavior of the old one.  And there are support functions that are not yet available.  As Bobbo said, thee is a learning curve for all of us.  And we can expect there to be a few bugs as the support roles out ... making hard to distinguish the bugs and the features.

Even though all incremental backups are included in the same files as the full backup, the individual backups appear as separate sub-folders within the single backup folder when viewed in File Explorer.  An access to the individual nested sub-folders is MUCH faster than in previous versions of ATI.  I need to do more testing, but this may be a function of the new ATI rather than of the new backup format.

That last sentence was almost certainly wrong but I'll keep testing.

 

Ronald,

We have a whole Help section about the new format in case you would like to read more about it:

https://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATI2020/index.html#…