Why is TI requesting the location of Version 1? I don't want to restore Version 1!
Before Win 7, I used Acronis only for full system and drive backup (external, off-site) and daily full mirror image (Secure Zone). For my third line of backup defense I had a simple incremental backup scheme using Windows NTBackup - it backed up only the changes and additions to my data and configuration files, which I restored every day to my laptop at home. This daily backup was very small, and fit easily onto a thumb drive.
I am having a TERRIBLE time figuring out how to do this with TI 2013. Here is what I did to set it up on my brand-new PC with Win 7 and TI 2013:
1. Chose the daily files/folders to be backed up incrementally and created a backup scheme.
2. Ran a "Full" backup on these files and folders in order to determine a "starting point" so that subsequent incremental changes would be recognized. This backup was about 5Gb - this does not fit on my biggest thumb drive which is only 4Gb. More significantly, I don't need to restore this backup to my laptop because those old data files already exist on the laptop (and I didn't do any client work during the time it took set up and configure my new PC). So I'm not going to go out and buy a new thumb drive for this purpose.
3. The last two days I have performed the incremental backup, which, each day, created backups that are less than 1Mb each, appropriate to the number of new or revised client files that I created or accessed each day.
Here's the problem:
I put those two backups on the thumb drive, but I can't find any way to restore them to my laptop, because the program (which I have upgraded to 2013 on my laptop) keeps asking for the "location of Version 1". I can't get to any files in the Explorer. This popup says that I can "ignore this message" but there is no button for "ignore", and "Cancel" just causes the same popup window with "Cannot Find Version 1" to reoccur MULTIPLE times, until some unknown number of times (related to number of folders or files in the archive???) when it finally stops - but usually I've hit Cancel (or Escape) too many times and it just escapes out of the Explorer entirely, which means trying to start over. Basically, I have yet to be able to access any files in the Backup Explorer, which, I can tell underneath this popup, is showing me ALL of my files, not just the few incremental ones from the last two days, so what good is that anyway?
I have NO idea what this program is trying to accomplish with all of this, but I am REALLY irritated. I should be able to pick and choose what I want to restore, I KNOW what I'm doing, but I can't figure out what the settings might be to allow me to do this, and I've found nothing in the knowledge base to help me do this very simple thing:
1. Back up a few files that have been created or changed each day.
2. Restore them to a different location.
Done.
Is Acronis capable of doing something this simple? NTBackup did it perfectly.
