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True Image Home 2010 consolidates my incremental backups ....but I have not specified any limit

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I just started to use Acronis True Image Home 2010.

I am now testing the following scenario: I asked ATI to perform every hour the incremental backup of a project Folder and asked ATI to create a new full backup after 30 incremental file backups (this is not exactly my future real-life scenario - just a scenario allowing me to become confident with my future use of a quite similar scenario involving weekly incremental backups).

To my surprise, I detected that ATI is performing an automatic consolidation of my incremental backups after a couple of incremental backups.... even though, I have not "checked" any one of of the three check-boxes associated with the three criterias used to trigger an automatic consolidation (see section "9.3.7 Setting automatic consolidation" of the User's Guide).

The User's Guide states in section 9.3.7 that "by Default, there are no limits set and automatic consolidation is not performed". This is definitively, what i want to happen (because, I want the possibility to recover to any one of the point-in-times associated with execution of the incremental backups).

But ATI nevertheless performs an automatic consolidation ....without deleting the Windows files containing those incremental backups, that it has consolidated into a new full backup (these inctremental backups do not appear anymore within ATI....But they still exist on my disks).

Can you please help me?
Thanks

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Meanwhile, I made additional tests.

In one test, I specified explicitely to automatically consolidate "when the number of backups exceeds 100" (see section 9.3.7 of the User's Guide"). After making this setting, ATI did not consolidate anymore the backup archive.

The User's Guide seems to be wrong, when stating that "By default there are no limits set and automatic consolidation is not performed". I suggest, that Acronis correct the UsersS Guide to avoid that other users too get misled and waste their time (or worse: realize only too late, that some of their incremental backups have been consolidated and are no more available. In such a situation, they will not be able to recover anymore to the point-in-times associated with the consolidated incremental backups).

Robert,
An alternative (and better) method would be to use oracledba's Chain2Gen helper program for TrueImage Home. It is listed inside my signature below.

Meanwhile, I can reproduce at will on my PC the problems that I have described previously in this Thread (or, at least, very similar problems) with a simple test Scenario involving Task-cloning.

See http://forum.acronis.com/forum/7826 for a description of that test scenario.

Hence, it is quite likely, that the problems that I have described in this thread were caused by ATI bugs that manifest tremself in scenarios involving Task-Cloning.

Notice however that other users reported similar problems even though they did not use task-cloning.