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Can someone please familiarize me with the Acronis True Image file naming scheme and how one would restore a disk from a backup?

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Thankfully I never had to run into this problem (knock on wood) but I thought I'd be knowledgeable when it comes to restoring a PC from an Acronis image backup, because this week I plan to do some  dual booting with Linux and before I start messing with stuff to deep I want to be aware of how I would potentially restore a disk image from a backup disk image. 

I have Acronis to backup my whole  computer (C:) weekly. I have it backup a a full version on my PC every 5 incremental versions (so for 4 weeks it backs up an incremental  version, and then on that 5 week is backs up a whole version, if I am understanding this correctly). Incremental only backs up the things that were changed in the previous version, not the whole thing, right? So what exactly are the differences between all these back ups?

I'm also pretty unfamiliar with the backup name scheme in the backup drive also and would appreciate some clearing up. In my G: drive (the drive I use strictly for the backup), there are files labeled as JESSES-PC-full_b4_s1_v1.tib, JESSES-PC-full_b21_s1_v1.tib, and so on, which I'm assuming are the full PC backups, and then even more files labeled JESSES-PC-inc_b21_s6_v1.tib, JESSES-PC-inc_b21_s5_v1.tib, etc. What exactly do these labels mean? And when it comes to restoring  a PC from  a backup, how would i know which one to choose and which one(s) would I want to choose?

Which leads me into my next question - How do I actually restore a PC from these backup files if I were to run into this issue of having to fully restore my PC - if someone could clear this up and help me understand, explaining the process and how to do it in layman's terms, I would really appreciate it. 

Lets say next week I found out all my data got deleted and my main drive with Windows was corrupt, how would I go about restoring it with these backups I created? 

Thank you for the help! 

 

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Jesse, welcome to these public User Forums.

I would recommend reading through the first few sections of the ATI 2018 User Guide which will give you a good introduction to how to use the application for the key purposes of doing both backups and recovery.

See the section on Backup file naming for information on that question.

See KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media which is important for when considering performing any recovery.

I would recommend creating the Windows PE version of the Acronis Rescue Media as described in the KB documents below.  This would be needed if your computer is not able to boot correctly after installing a second OS such as Linux.
KB 60820: Acronis True Image 2018: how to create bootable media
KB 60091: Acronis True Image 2018: how Simple bootable media creation mode works

See KB 60131: Acronis True Image 2018: how to restore your computer with WinPE-based or WinRE-based media