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File revover does not show all incremental backups

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I am trying to recover a file that was inadvertently deleted 1 day ago. I have a single backup stream with one full backup, followed by over 100 incremental backups. I back up daily when I am in town. When I tried to recover my file, it showed incremental backups on the ATI Explorer from the beginning until Mid-September, but none from Mid-September until now. I checked on the backup external disk, and they are all there.

I then run the validation on the backup stream and it came out clean.

How do I get to my most recent backups?

Hellmut

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Hellmut,

Use the GH21 example and browse to the location of all the files.
Select/highlight the entire all of ALL 100+ files and add the entire group to the "add to list" option.
Hopefully, this will cause all to show.

100 incrementals is unsafe. If one is not readable, you are jeopardizing all the later incrementals.
Create a new task and start over with new task which has more frequent full backups.

GH21. How to add backup files to the listing of backup tasks for assorted uses             such as validation or recovery or add missing files to backup tasks.

GH25. Understanding differences between Inc and Dif for Safety

Set up your new tasks with automatic cleanup as per this illustration.
GH12. Create Custom Incremental Backup Scheme. 6 Inc, Keep 4 chains. The 6-4 is an example only with user choice for whatever number of chains to be retained best fits the individual needs.