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Notifications are no longer verbose? and File System changes?

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Email Notifications for local backups seems to have lost some data reporting abilities.  I no longer see file version information or evidence that Validation has occurred.  "Attach full log to report" is selected.

Also, in the local backup folders, I no longer see incremental versions.

Is this the new normal for ATI?

Thanks!

zzwerzy

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Yes. 2020 use a newer .tibx format that incorporates all incremental chains I to a single file now. It's the same format in the enterprise backup version to try and standardize. Make sure you only cleanup versions in the GUI now and not with file explorer because there is a leftover file with 12kb of supplemental data anytime a consolidation or cleanup is run.

Not sure about the email notifications. I think they plan to bring back some of the info, but haven't built it in fully yet.

With ATI 2020 the email notifications are based on the ti_demon logs which themselves no longer contain all the detailed messages for the backup task, hence the emails are less informative!

That detailed information is now stored in the backup_worker logs for which we do not currently have a tool for parsing the logs - it is not an option for the MVP Log Viewer tool as wasn't used when that tool was created!

The backup_worker logs are probably too detailed for the average user to want to try to dig through, so this is another example of things being dumbed down.

Email Notifications for local backups seems to have lost some data reporting abilities.  I no longer see file version information or evidence that Validation has occurred.

As Steve mentioned, neither the notifications nor the ti_demon logs contain information such as file and drive identification.  There was talk during the Beta test that this was for security reasons - that exposing this information might be in violation of GDPR rules.  I think this was never confirmed, but if true then we will probably not get Acronis to put that information back.  That is unfortunate since the missing data is really important for diagnostic activity.