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Performed a full back up to an external drive & ended up with 22 versions

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I performed a disk & partition backup that took over an hour to an external hard drive.
My external hard drive now has 22 versions of what appears to be the same info when you open up any one of the 22 versions. Each one shows my C: drive with all of my info on it. Each version is exactly 4.194 Gigs and they look like this:

My partitions_full_b1_s1_v1.tib 11/18/2014 4:11 PM
My partitions_full_b1_s1_v2.tib 11/18/2014 4:18 PM
My partitions_full_b1_s1_v3.tib 11/18/2014 4:21 PM
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My partitions_full_b1_s1_v22.tib 11/18/2014 5:25 PM

Incremental versions look normal as:
My partitions_inc_b1_s2_v1.tib 11/24/2014 9:11 AM

My question is....Is this normal. Should I have 22 full versions from my original backup.
Do I need to keep all 22 or just the latest one or two.

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Your tib backup file has been split into small pieces due to the fact that you storage disk containing the backups is formatted as a FAT32 file system.

You can convert the FAT32 into an NTFS file system and the next full size backup will be only one large file.

Google for help in converting.

You need to keep all versions in order for your file to be usable.

Thank you so much. This explains my confusion. I try to learn something new each and every day and this is my learning lesson for today. Did the conversion and now I have one large file as you mentioned.
Again Thank you GroverH.