Help understanding some of the technical words
I am having problems comprehending the following text due to my lack of knowledge of the technical vocabulary.
Glossary:
the metadata file
the original backup task
the ATI GUI
there is no matching task in the GUI
the backup task settings
the automatic clean-up rules
Here is the context:
I have just learned in a support call that even full backups files (tibx) are not independent from their respective backup chain.
This means, that even if they had been validated successfully, any backup-file copy at some other location can't be used anymore after the original file got removed by eg the ATI 2020 cleanup.
RESPONSE
I am not sure that the above statements are correct!
The key to all new backup files using .tibx file format in ATI 2020 is to try to keep files together, but most importantly to keep the metadata file with any files that may be copied to another location.
If the original backup task that created these files is still shown in the ATI GUI, then you should not attempt to add the files created by that task from a different destination location unless you have first removed the backup task settings from the GUI.
If there is no matching task in the GUI, then you can use the option to 'Add existing backup' for files stored in another location, just the same as you could for files created using the Acronis Rescue Media offline from Windows.
The following screen images were captured for making a series of full backup images to my external backup drive and show how the very first file of the backup sequence becomes the metadata file when the automatic clean-up rules start cleaning up the oldest backup files.
Thank you.
Roberto.


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