How to browse files that were backed up recently?
How to browse a TIB file and determine what files were actually put inside of it.
I used Windows Backup but because lack of flexibility I decided to look for another backup solution so I installed ATIH2012 and now I am trying to decide to buy or not to buy ATIH2012.
I configured the backup up of my system & documents drive and used the incremental scheme. ATIH2012 created a backup copy which size is 180Gb. Then I surfed the Internet for a couple of hours and changed a several small sized documents. I did not download and did not change anything especially large such as program installations or films. After that I decided to run the backup again. ATIH2012 created an incremental backup file in 1 hour and its size was 1Gb. Currently I have two files: DiskC.tib (180Gb) and DiskC2.tib (1Gb).
It seems that something large was changed between backups so ATIH had to compress a lot of information and put it into DiskC2.tib.
So the question is the following:
How to browse DiskC2.tib and determine what files were actually put inside of it. If I open it in Windows Explorer I see all the files that are in both DiskC.tib and DiskC2.tib files.
You can click|mount|etc, but you will see everything. You will see files that were not changed from the beginning of time and you will see files that were changed yesterday. The question is: Is there a way to browse only the files that are included in a particular TIB, not the whole chain of TIBs?
The incs are basically an overwrite of what's in the prior files. So you could track through or you could consolidate and then view that file.
It seems that my English is too bad and I can't explain it properly. Why should I consolidate anything just in order to view files?
track through
How? It doesn't matter what TIB in a chain I open. ATIH always displays the same set of files which were backed up during the previous backup sessions and the files which were backed up during the last one.
Let us look at the simple example.
1. I have one file. test1.txt.
2. I backup it and ATIH creates Test.tib
3. If I open it I can see that Test.tib contains test1.txt
4. I add another file test2.txt. I do not change test1.txt.
5. I backup it again and AITH creates Test2.tib
6. If I open Test2.tib I will see both files - test1.txt and test2.txt despite the fact that only test2.txt was actually placed into the Test2.tib file.
Is there a command or some browsing mode that shows only (without test1.txt) test2.txt while I am looking at Test2.tib?
The poster wants to get a delta between backups. I asked the same thing a while back and was told this:
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/24490
"The closest you can get is through the Backup Explorer window. You get to that window when you click explore and recover, or explore all versions from the backup list."
That was for 2011, however, and I only had 2010, so I haven't been able to verify.
The poster wants to get a delta between backups.
This is exactly what I want. Thank you for understanding. Unfortunately it looks like ATIH does not have such feature. Too bad.
Hi all,
Thank you for your comments.
Andrew, unfortunately we don't have such a feature. The reason: incremental backup (if you run a system backup) backs up not the files themselves, but the information of what sectors were changed on the drive since the last backup (this might also explain why the incremental was so big: maybe you have some kind of database running or defragmentation running). In case you're making a file backup, then the product is checking file attributes - and backs them up in case they've changed.
However it would be great to implement an ability to check the attributes of which files were backed up. I've forwarded your comment to the Development team.
Let us know if you have any additional questions or something seems confusing, we will be glad to clarify.
Thank you.