Incremental backups disappear after successful creation!
I successfully backed up my PC to a new full backup. Then I ran a bunch of windows updates and did an incremental backup. The incremental backup was completed successfully. But, when I looked at my backup files (split DVD sized files) created on a 2Tb USB external hard drive, they had disappeared. Only the original files were there with the original time stamp on them. I made a few more changes and did another backup being very careful to select the correct file name and location. Same deal - updated files were nowhere to be found.
On a hunch I initiated a restore. The restore offerred me the choice of three versions of the backup. So it seems to know where they are. But I sure as heck don't, and that is not a healthy issue when it comes to saving old backups in a proper data archiving scheme.
Is it possible that TrueImage is adding the revised files to the old backup but not updating the date and time stamp of the file?
If so, how does one save various versions of the backups without saving the whole thing for each one?
My old version of TrueImage created a separate incremental file which only held the incremental differences. Selecting this file for recovery automatically selected the base files and any interim incremental versions too.
Cheers!
