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Hello, I installed True Image 2021 on Windows 10 x64 (fully updated). I have two disks: one for OS and one for Data.

So I planed two different disk-backups: one monthly and the other weekly. Now, after the first backups of the two disks, only data disk backup was repeated. Tray icon lists all two backups repeated on the same day!!! This only in this list. The application shows the right status and on the local backup disk I can see two copy of data backups and one copy of the OS backup. What is it wrong? Thanks

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Paolo, welcome to these public User Forums.

The probable answer here is the difference between how .tib and .tibx backup files work.

If you are making a new Disk backup then it uses .tibx files.

If you are making a new Files & Folders backup of the data on your data disk, then it uses .tib files.

If you further are making Incremental backups after the initial Full one, then for your .tibx disk backup, the incremental backup slice is consolidated into the same .tibx file, hence only one file is shown.

However, for .tib backups, the Incremental backup is created as a separate file, hence you will see two or more files.

This is normal operation for how these different file work in ATI 2020 & 2021.

Hello, I'm making only full backups every time... For data disk I can see two tbx, for OS disk one tbx.

Maybe TI notify also in tray area backup  options modification (I've done this in that day). The italian translation maybe is incorrect and is the same of a completed backup. I'm thinking so

Paolo, are you sure that you have allowed the time needed for your monthly disk backup to run more than once here?

Given your initial post, you have one task that only runs once per month, and a second task that runs every week, hence they will not keep pace with each other, you will have 4 or 5 times more backup files for the second task than for the first task.

If I am not understanding the issue you have here, then please provide some screen shots to show what the issue is.

I deleted wrong notifications...

The time is ok. All works fine. Only that wrong notification

 

One key difference I noticed between the option of backing system and data disks together (whole system backup) vs backing up the disks separately.

At restore time, using the rescue media, when you have a whole system backup, it is pretty easy to restore a whole disk back. With a separate disk backup, ATI is asking you to specify what you want to do with each partition on the disk, in particular to specify the destination. This can be disconcerting because drive letters in the recovery media are not the ones uses by windows.

I have a gaming computer and I was backing up the system disk on a local disk, and the whole system on a NAS. The NVMe system disk failed, and I was not able to restore it. When I tried to restore on a bigger disk, the restore of the system partition failed. When I used the whole system backup, I simply restored the image of the old system disk altogether on the new NVMe disk. The operation was simpler and it worked well.

I am not implying that the failure was due to the backup approach, but the restore process was much simpler and straightforward with the whole system backup.

Pat L wrote:

One key difference I noticed between the option of backing system and data disks together (whole system backup) vs backing up the disks separately.

At restore time, using the rescue media, when you have a whole system backup, it is pretty easy to restore a whole disk back. With a separate disk backup, ATI is asking you to specify what you want to do with each partition on the disk, in particular to specify the destination. This can be disconcerting because drive letters in the recovery media are not the ones uses by windows.

I have a gaming computer and I was backing up the system disk on a local disk, and the whole system on a NAS. The NVMe system disk failed, and I was not able to restore it. When I tried to restore on a bigger disk, the restore of the system partition failed. When I used the whole system backup, I simply restored the image of the old system disk altogether on the new NVMe disk. The operation was simpler and it worked well.

I am not implying that the failure was due to the backup approach, but the restore process was much simpler and straightforward with the whole system backup.

 

I prefer two backup: one monthly (OS) and the other one weekly (data). Splitting give me more speed