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How to resume backup after a re-install of Windows 7?

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Hello, I have been using Acronis True Image Home Premium 2014 to back up my iTunes library on Windows 7. The iTunes library was located in a folder on a secondary drive (Z), and I was doing incremental backups of that folder, once a week, onto an external drive (K). My main drive then suffered a catastrophic crash, and I had to reinstall Windows 7 onto a new (C) drive. Everything is back to normal now, I have re-installed iTunes, it's using the old library on drive (Z), and I have started to add new music to it. I have also re-installed Acronis True Image.

My questions are: How do I resume backing up my iTunes library? Can I somehow get ATI to read the .tib files that are still available in a folder on my external drive (K), and start adding new incremental backups to them? Or do I need to start all over, and do a full backup of my iTunes library again, and then have ATI add new incremental backups, each week, as I did before the crash? It sure would be nice if ATI doesn't have to go through and do everything over with the full library.

I have tried to look through the FAQs and browse these forums, but I'm still not clear what I can and cannot do at this point. I would be very grateful for any help in solving this issue.

Thank you very much,

Davvy

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There is no resume. Just create a new task and start the backup over again with a full backup.

That's a bummer. The whole iTunes library folder is around 420 GB. :-(

When I go into the "Backup and Recovery" tab on ATI, I can see the old, full backup file listed there: "iTunes_Library_full_b1_v1_s1". All the incremental backup files are also still there as well, they just don't show up in ATI.

I can then click on the gear settings icon and pick "Recreate Backup Settings". If I pick my source, then point to the old full backup file as destination, will this allow ATI to read that "...full_b1_v1_s1" file, compare it to the current folder to be backed up, and then start with new incremental backups? Or will it just rewrite a new full backup file? What about "Validate", would it serve any purpose to validate that old full backup file?

Thanks again, if there's really no other option, I'll start doing a new backup all over again.

Davvy