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Hi:

If I need to perform a full restore and I have an Incremental backup chain, would I select the first (full) tib or the last (Incremental) tib in the chain for the backup?

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Steven,

Selecting the last incremental will be a full restore, as of the date and time when the last incremental was made.  You could select the full backup or any of the other incremental files, but the restore would be as of the date and time the full backup or incremental backup was made.

 

 

Thanks.

Can I select just “one” of my incremental backups and restore just that “one” such as the last one, or would the target partition get erased and the “whole” Incremental chain restore onto it?

Any restore of a disk & partitions backup image will result in the target drive / partition being wiped and the whole backup being restored from the selected incremental file and all previous files in the same backup version chain.

Are you looking to restore your system, or just pick off a few files?

That’s what I thought, but I ask because of the below paragraph from section 3.1 “Basic Concepts” page 28 of the user guide:

 

Incremental recovery is performed only to the original location and only from a cloud backup. Before the recovery starts, the files in the original location are compared with the files in the backup by file attributes, such as file size and date of last modification. Those files that do not match are marked for recovery, the remaining files will be skipped during recovery. In that way, as opposed to the full recovery, Acronis True Image recovers only changed files. This method significantly reduces the recovery time and saves Internet traffic while recovering from Acronis Cloud.

 

could this reduced recovery method be achievable without using the cloud? I’m just asking in case I have to perform a partiton / disk recovery, I would like to know what my options are since I’m using the Incremental backup scheme.

Steven, Cloud recoveries work a little differently than doing a recovery from a local backup image, thus as you quoted above, when recovering from the Cloud the aim is to try to reduce the amount of data that needs to be downloaded for the recovery, hence the file comparisons being done to try to limit downloads to only that needed (unless you are doing a bare-metal recovery!).

OK Thanks.