Giant files with semi-random filenames littering backup directory using True Image Home 2009 automatic consolidation

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I have a single job scheduled to conduct an incremental backup of my entire system nightly, with automatic consolidation every 10 backups. I understand that this creates a full backup on the first run of the job, and incrementals along the way, but I'm a little bit unclear about how the consolidation works. On the eleventh backup, is the first (oldest) incremental merged into the full backup file?

In any case, TIH2009 is littering my backup target directory with giant files with semi-random filenames that look like they might temporary consolidation files. For instance, if my main backup file is named "SystemBackup(1)", the files in question have names like "SystemBackup(1)11_C298AF8D-E77A-4D3D-AD96-153C9CBA20CD5". See the attached screenshot for an example directory listing.

What are these files, can I delete them, and how do I stop True Image from leaving them around?

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Thu, 08/12/2010 - 21:25
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Hello !
I discovered the same problem.
I'm wondering about the tib-sizes.
The full Image has about 6 GB, the first incremell-backup has 10 GB and the second backup has 20 GB.
The first has the long filename from above.
What's that ?
Another situation : Full Image. After that I made differential Images.
All is fine. Then the consolidation comes into acoount.
After 400 GB it has to consolidate my images.
I found an image with nearly the normal size as the 8 Images before, but there is another Image with the long filename mentioned above.
It happened 3 times, then normal differential Images were generated again.
Which is the main (full) image ?
From which Image is the diffential Image taken ?
I don't know.
Any Ideas ?
Andreas

Thu, 01/27/2011 - 13:35