Selecting archives in consolidation wizard
I have been using ATI 2009(9709) on my personal Windows 7 desktop for several years and it has worked well for me, but I'm having trouble trying something I've never done before. I searched the KB and didn't see an example of my problem.
I want to consolidate several months of archives, preserving only the most recent system image. Using the Consolidation Wizard, I browse to my backup drive to select the archives I need to consolidate. But it does not show the full backup at the top of the list.
Here is what the backup folder looks like in Windows Explorer:
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This is what the wizard shows:
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The wizard is omitting the full backup, "MyBackup(2)1.tib - created at 5/9/2012 at 2:09AM" and calling "MyBackup(2)2.tib - created at 5/09/2012 at 7:14AM" the full backup. I do not recall why I ran two backups the same day, but I wonder if that's causing the problem. I am out of disk space and do not want to proceed and corrupt my backup. The one that the wizard calls the full backup is only half the size of the full backup that I see in Explorer. Any ideas what's causing this?
Also, just to be clear; to retain a backup of the most recent image of my system, should I check only the most recent incremental archive? Or do I also select the full backup(assuming it was showing in the list)? Thanks for the help.
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Ah, I understand. Not the first time ATI has confused me. So if I understand correctly, I won't have enough space to do the operation. I guess it's time for that new terabyte backup drive I've been wanting for about 4 years. I'll start doing automatic consolidations from now on.
This is the first time I've posted since the forum moved from Wilders Security. As always, it was a great help. Thanks, Pat.
Rusty
EDIT: Since this seems like a good place to ask about a new external drive; Seagate or Western Digital? Other?
WD has been good for me in the past, but everyone has a favorite. Right now I use a WD 320Gb in a USB enclosure.
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Oops, double post. Moderators, can you delete the extra post?
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Rusty,
I don't have a brand preference. Remember that is you choose a disk bigger than 2TB, it will a GPT disk by default (certain 2TB are preset as GPT also, but you can change them to MBR). To support GPT disks, you will need a new version of ATI.
Finally, I'd suggest your move away from consolidation and use a disk cleanup option, where you specify that ATI should keep only the X most recent versions. See this for reference: http://forum.acronis.com/forum/28705
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