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Validating a bu wierdness

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Hi. I have made a number of bu-s in the past few weeks. Right now, on my G drive, I have two .tib files. There are no other bus anywhere else, and my external HDD is not plugged into the computer. I do not use the cloud.

I just did a validate bu - thinking I was validating only the most recent bu, but it seems not. The two bus on my G drive are 17d GB and 83 GB respectively. Now that the validation process was done, Acronis says:

Versions: 10 (last: today)
Total size: 753.75 GB

What gives? If there are only two bus on my HD, and no other bu is accessible, what exactly is Acronis looking at?

Thanks in advance.

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Greetings,
Based on the limited information we have, I believe what you meant to say is you have 2 back up sets on your drive. One is 83GB and the other is 17GB.

Based on the output, it appears you are using a incremental or differential scheme and that one of the back up sets has or did have 10 versions?

Is it possible that you have deleted back ups outside of Acronis, using say windows explorer or have you hidden or removed back ups from displaying in Acronis back up explorer.

I think this is what Acronis might be looking at. Maybe you can confirm this?

Hi, thanks for responding.

"I believe what you meant to say is you have 2 back up sets on your drive. One is 83GB and the other is 17GB."

Correct.

" it appears you are using a incremental or differential scheme "

No - backup method is set to full.

"Is it possible that you have deleted back ups outside of Acronis, using say windows explorer or have you hidden or removed back ups from displaying in Acronis back up explorer. "

Originally, I did have multiple versions in that folder. If they were still in that folder, I would not be surprised that Acronis was looking at them. But they are not there. If there are only two .tib files in that folder, how is it possible that Acronis is looking at 10? How does it look at the ones that have already been deleted?

Acronis maintains an XML database file that keeps track up this and other information. When back ups are deleted in windows explorer and not from within the program, this database is not updated and thus the software believes back ups exist where none are really there.

If you close the program and delete this file, it should be recreated when the program is started again. I'd make a copy of it, before deleting just in case. If memory serves this is the path C:\ProgramData\Acronis\TrueImageHome\Database , but I'm not at home currently.