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New image backup after image restore?

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Hi,

I made a complete image backup of my drive, then daily differential backups.

Today the drive failed and I had to replace it. After replacement I restored the image from the backup. All went fine.

But now I am unsure how to proceed with the diffetential backups:

- can I continue to use the existing entry for the volume in TI to add further differential backups?

- or do I have to delete/ignore the "old" differential backups and create a new backup entry in TI?

Thanks for the help.

Manfred

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When i tried this (but with incremental backups), i simply browsed to the latest increment and just recreated the settings but didnt change the backup name. Seems to be fine, although i am certainly no expert - YMMV.

Manfred,
My suggestion would be to stop using the backup task which created the differential files and start over with a new task. This is one example using automatic cleanup.

GH13. Create Custom Differential Backup Scheme. 2 Diff, Keep 2 chains. The 2-2 is user choice.

However, if you wish to continue the current numbering of the tib files, the numbering will change.
If you wish to keep exactly the same numbering scheme, you would need to delete the differential file you used for the restore plus any newer diff files of the same backup task. For example, if dif 10 was the restore file, 10 did not exist at backup snapshot time and 10 became the new backup file. So to get your system diff numbering back to what it was at dif 10 creation time, the #10 and newer has to be deleted.

GH5. How to delete backup files using Acronis Backup 'Explorer'

Again, my suggestion is to start fresh with a new task and a new full backup.

You may find my signature link 2-A to be of assistance.