Consolidation clarification
I have done a lot of backups and now I need to consolidate some of the older ones.
In typical Acronis fashion, the message boxes and instructions are obtuse and unclear.
Can someone please clarify how to do a consolidation?
Here's what I have:
Full backup name IOData
Incremental backups IOData2 to IOData16 (I don't think there ever was an IOData1)
Here's what I want to end up with:
A consolidation of all the backups (original full backup plus IOData2 though 16)
I don't mind what it's called, but I would have guessed calling it the final backup (IOData16) would make sense.
Here's what I do:
In the Recovery Window, I right click IOData which starts the consolidation wizard. It asks 'Select backups to keep'. Well, I want to roll them up into one file, so I guess that means I don't want to keep any of them except the consolidated one. Is that right? Or do I not want to keep any of them? It's so unclear.
In the 'Finish' section, it says the location will be IOData16 for both the Location and the Destination. What's the difference between a location and a destination? If they are the same why does it list both?
I'm just taking it carefully, as I don't want to lose my backups!
Thanks for the clarifications.
Peter

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