Ever increasing backup size
I have been using Acronis True Image for several years but, recently, because of upgrading to Windows 10, I moved from Acronis 2013 to Acronis 2016 but am currently still running on WINDOWS 7, SP1.
Previously, all my backups (I do only FULL images) had run around 34 GB. Since moving to ATI 2016, all my backups, at least as reported by ATI), seem to be 34GB Plus the size of the previous backup (i.e. 34 + 34 + 34 .......). Total size as reported by ATI is abou 100GB which is way, way bigger than my system file. My backup storage is on a USB 3.0 1TB Western Digital hard disk.
Am I misunderstanding something or is there a bug in ATI? ATI 2016 seems to behave as if it was doing a series of images but adding each one to the previous one like a kind of incremental backup.
By the way, I preferred the old (2013) initial display showing all the backups in chronological order and allowing separate actions (validate, delete, etc) upon each one.


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If that's the case (and, I'm not questioning what you say), how does one select a specific backup for recovery or deletion?
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I just checked the backup storage and, in fact, there are separate backup files for the last two backups. As in my previous post, I still don't know how to select them from the within Acronis.
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Jerry, see Recovering partitions and disks in the ATIH 2016 User Guide, where you will see an image in step 4 and in the top right you will see a drop-down selection list where you choose which backup version by date & time.
- Start Acronis True Image.
- If you want to recover your data from Acronis Cloud, make sure that you are signed in to your Acronis account.
- In the Backup section, select the backup which contains the partitions or disks you want to recover, and then clickRecover disks.
- In the Backup version list, select the backup version you want to recover by its backup date and time.
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Thanks very much Steve! I am not yet as familiar with user's guide as I was with ATIH 2013. As we used to say in software development 'When all else fails, read the manual'.
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