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Acronis runs backups successfully, but not found through file explorer

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Hello, 

New ATI user here, helping some friends with back ups. I am running the Acronis 2021 on a Win10 machine to a NAS. The logs in ATI shows that incremental backups have been running successfully every hour as per settings, and full back ups as well. However, when I navigate to the file path where the backups are located, I only see a list of ones that ran since about 3 days ago. 
I can even click in the backup settings in ATI to show me the file location, and it takes me to the same place, but the actual backups are missing from there. It's puzzling...
What suggestions do you have? Thanks in advance  

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Becca, welcome to these public User Forums.

Sorry but more information is needed to understand what may be happening here?

What are your backup scheme settings for this task?  How many incrementals are being created before a new Full backup gets created?  What are your automatic cleanup settings?

Screen shots of the settings and of the files stored on the NAS would be helpful.

The other source of information are the logs created for all backup tasks.

Download a copy of the MVP Assistant log viewer tool and use this to look at the logs to see if they show any issues during the operation process?

The latest version of the new log viewer tool is at the link below. 
MVP Assistant update for Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office (Version 1.1.6.0)

If you have Disks & Partitions backups created on ATI 2020 or later using .tibx files, then look in the Backup Worker logs.

If you have Files & Folders backups using .tib files (or Disk backups from earlier versions using .tib files) or using Cloning then look in the Demon logs.

Other logs are shown by the MVP Assistant under the 'Active Logs' heading of the Log Viewer page of the Assistant.

The Schedule2 log contains information related to scheduled task but is one of the more difficult logs to read / work through.

The log files should be zipped to preserve their original file names if sharing in the forums and would need to be less than 3MB in size, otherwise you would need to share the zip file via a Cloud share service such as OneDrive, Dropbox etc.

Hi Steve, 

Thank you for your prompt and helpful response! I will try to download the tool and look at the logs you suggested. 

The backup scheme and schedule is daily incremental every 1 hr. 
Then create a full version after every 6 incremental versions 
The cleanup is: 
Delete version chains older than 31 days 

I see older incremental backups since the end of last month but all the new recent incremental and full backups don't seem to be stored. I will try to test out the tool sometime by the end of the week to see what I find. 

Becca, if you are looking for separate incremental backup files and making a disk backup, then these are automatically combined within the initial Full backup .tibx file, not created as separate files any more.  This is the way Disks & Partitions backups work since ATI 2020 when .tibx files were introduced and the backup file naming convention changed from using _b1_s1_v1 type notation for .tib files to just using the name and a suffix for .tibx files.