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I use my reporting feature on Acronis 2013 to send me a copy of each backup results. The reports use to be simple and ended in the same "operation succeeded".

Only thing now is the report has a lot of info that appears to indicate it was not successful yet it concludes with that assurance. The following is what the report was that I received today.

1 Information 2/21/2014 4:00:03 AM Backup reserve copy attributes: format tib; need_reserve_backup_copy false;
2 Information 2/21/2014 4:00:03 AM Operation Acer started by schedule.
3 Information 2/21/2014 4:00:03 AM Operation description: This is the Acer Acronis 2013 Backup.
4 Information 2/21/2014 4:00:24 AM Backup reserve copy attributes: format tib; need_reserve_backup_copy false;
5 Information 2/21/2014 4:00:25 AM Create Backup Archive From: PQSERVICE (1-1), SYSTEM RESERVED (1-2), Acer (C:) To file: "T:\_Backups\Acer\Acer__full_b50_s1_v1.tib" Compression: Normal Exclude: Files matching mask Match criterion: *.tib, *.tmp, *.~
6 Information 2/21/2014 4:00:26 AM Pending operation 152 started: 'Creating partition image'.
7 Information 2/21/2014 4:00:36 AM Pending operation 152 started: 'Creating partition image'.
8 Information 2/21/2014 4:00:36 AM Pending operation 152 started: 'Creating partition image'.
9 Information 2/21/2014 4:14:08 AM Writing incremental version to file: Acer__inc_b50_s2_v1.tib
10 Information 2/21/2014 4:19:49 AM Pending operation 149 started: 'Saving partition structure'.
11 Information 2/21/2014 4:19:49 AM The following backups have been successfully created: "T:\_Backups\Acer\Acer__inc_b50_s2_v1.tib"
12 Information 2/21/2014 4:19:49 AM Validate Backup Archive Location: "T:\_Backups\Acer\Acer__inc_b50_s2_v1.tib"
13 Information 2/21/2014 4:19:49 AM Pending operation 3 started: 'Validate Backup Archive'.
14 Information 2/21/2014 5:49:18 AM Consolidate Backup Archive Location: "T:\_Backups\Acer\Acer__inc_b50_s2_v1.tib" Destination: "T:\_Backups\Acer\Acer__inc_b50_s2_v1_D87AB3B9-3CA2-44FF-88DA-F9E9F4D83504.tib"
15 Information 2/21/2014 5:49:18 AM Consolidate Backup Archive Location: "T:\_Backups\Acer\Acer__inc_b50_s2_v1.tib" Destination: "T:\_Backups\Acer\Acer__inc_b50_s2_v1_D87AB3B9-3CA2-44FF-88DA-F9E9F4D83504.tib"
16 True Image 2/21/2014 5:49:18 AM Failed to open backup T:\_Backups\Acer\Acer__inc_b47_s3_v1.tib. Make sure the backup location is accessible and contains all versions of the backup. This backup may also be corrupted.
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18 True Image 2/21/2014 5:49:18 AM
19 True Image 2/21/2014 5:49:18 AM The specified file does not exist.
20 True Image 2/21/2014 5:49:18 AM The system cannot find the file specified
21 True Image 2/21/2014 5:59:21 AM Failed to open data stream. Try to remove the backup from the list, add it again by clicking 'Browse for backup' and recreate the backup settings.
22 True Image 2/21/2014 5:59:21 AM Failed to open backup T:\_Backups\Acer\Acer__inc_b47_s3_v1.tib. Make sure the backup location is accessible and contains all versions of the backup. This backup may also be corrupted.
23 True Image 2/21/2014 5:59:21 AM Failed to open backup T:\_Backups\Acer\Acer__inc_b47_s3_v1.tib. Make sure the backup location is accessible and contains all versions of the backup. This backup may also be corrupted.
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25 True Image 2/21/2014 5:59:21 AM
26 True Image 2/21/2014 5:59:21 AM The specified file does not exist.
27 True Image 2/21/2014 5:59:21 AM The system cannot find the file specified
28 Information 2/21/2014 5:59:21 AM Deleting backup file with path T:\_Backups\Acer\Acer__inc_b47_s3_v1.tib.
29 Information 2/21/2014 5:59:21 AM Deleting backup file with path T:\_Backups\Acer\Acer__inc_b47_s2_v1.tib.
30 Information 2/21/2014 5:59:21 AM Deleting backup file with path T:\_Backups\Acer\Acer__full_b47_s1_v1.tib.
31 Information 2/21/2014 5:59:21 AM Operation has succeeded.

All my backups are validated after completion so can I count on them being ok?

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At this point, you cannot assume anything.
Perform a separate validation on this backup. Whether good or bad, my personal recommendation is that I would cease to create new backups with it.

Two reasons. First is that consolidations is involved. This is the mixing of your data and this is tricky and subject to corruption.
Instead, I would suggest you use straight forward automatic program deletion of old backups so the process would be much cleaner and much quicker. Old backup are deleted rather than merged. Examine link 2 below and review illustration 11-Inc (similar but different than old backup scheme) or 11-Dif if considering the differential method of backups.

This example provides for automatic cleanup (deletion) of old backups once the program reaches the threshold of how many backups should be retained (store x number of recent version chains) so as new backups are added, old backups are deleted automatically.

The second reason is that it appears you have a lengthy number of incremental backups all based on the single full backup.
This means if you wanted to restore a backup created today, the program should need to restore the full backup first and then restore each and every other incremental backup that this chain has created and if any single inc is corrupt or not readable, the restore process stops and the restore has failed.

Other backup options would include creating a full more frequently and reducing the number of incremental backups;
or
consider using the full plus differential backup method where the restore process only needs the base full backup plus one single differential backup to get your system current with the last diff backup. Each differential backup includes ALL changes since the last FULL backup so a single diff file (plus the full) contains all changes).