What does missing 2 or missing 3 mean during restore?
I literally had one full backup and 6 incremental backups for a brand new backup job when I decided to upgrade the source drive. (I still retained the source just in case). Due to space reasons I couldnt mount them both at the same time to clone.
I booted into winpe and ran a restore and it said "Missing 2". It might as well as said "Missing Mother - Call Home"
What is a user expected to make out of the message? There isnt and never wasnt a file called "2"
If it is missing the second file in the chain, could it not say "Please select the 2nd file in the chain?" or better yet "Cant find <exact expected file name>"?
Out of sheer frustration, I pointed to 2nd in the chain.
It immediately asked about 3, so I pointed to the 3rd.
It seemed to find 4,5,6 and whatever else it needed and restored fine.
The thing is all the files were present, had the correct naming, were never altered or moved outside TI, and were less than one week old.
How could it NOT FIND the file, and then completely restore once I pointed to it?
Either the file is missing or it is corrupted. Its not missing its right there next to all the rest. Its not corrupted, it just completely restored.
This answer would help a lot next time if I happen to be in a time-critical restore scenario.
Thanks in advance to all the hard working forum moderators and community experts


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