why mounting backup let me recover files I expect I deleted before last Incremental?
I found that at some point recently my
C:\Users\<username>\Pictures
had become empty. Happily I have restored it from backup (by mounting it in Windows), but I'm perplexed by what I found.
Because when I mounted the backup I found the folder was full even though I'm 99.9% sure that the folder was empty when last night's Incremental was run.
** Details **
I create my backups using ATI 2020 recovery media on a USB drive. I make Base backups weekly.
I set out hoping to restore the most recent Incremental on which the folder was full, by Mounting each Incremental in Windows. But I can't see any way to do that now that each backup.tibx now contains both the Base, and 6 Incrementals.
So all I could do was mount this week's backup.tibx which contained a Base plus Incrementals. And I don't understand how, when I did, the empty folder was full because I expect that it was empty when last night's Incremental was run, since looking in that real folder was practically the first thing I did this morning. So I would have assumed that the 'conglomerate' backup.tibx would mount with it empty.
Is there no way to get snapshots with ATI 2020 in Windows for how each Incremental looks? (Edit: I just found a FAQ which suggested that I could if I were creating my backups in Windows. Maybe I should start doing that, even though I'm liking doing it with the recovery media.)
(Incidentally, I've tried to restore files from the recovery media and for some reason that fails.)


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Thank you very much Steve, with that encouragement I stumbled onto it.
In summary, I discovered "Add existing backup" in the menu for "Add backup".
** Details **
My Backup | Recovery tab had been empty--I guess because I created no existing backups with the Windows app--but after I selected long-deleted ones in the left pane and clicked Ignore a bunch of times, it seems to have found ones I created with the boot media. (Apparently it found them via "auto-search", presumably because I'd mounted one so it knew the new foldername.)
But auto-search only found a few of them. I thought it might help to "Add backup" to teach it the new destination foldername, but the left pane of the Backup | Recovery tab was still missing most of that folder's backups, I suppose it hadn't felt like doing another "auto-search" yet lol.
Thank goodness I found how to manually add the existing ones! It was interesting to learn that that folder had been deleted two days ago, and nice to re-Restore from just that Incremental!
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