Replacing a NAS drive - will ATI notice?
I use ATI to back up files on a public share on a NAS device. The share is mapped to my Z: drive. I'm planning on replacing the NAS. I'm currently copying everything from the old NAS to the new one and it looks like all the file and directory timestamps are being maintained. (Some of the "Date Modified" field are getting today's date; some are maintaining the original date. I don't understand that.) Will ATI see this as a new source and get confused, or will it just see this as the same old files on the same old Z: drive and just take a new incremental backup the next time the backup is scheduled? I don't much care if it thinks all the data has been changed - it's nearly time for full backupe anyway. I just would like the new backup to be either b64_s7 or b65_s1 rather than b1_s1 of a new backup chain.
Update:
I was wrong about the Date Modified field being changed to today's date. Any file or directory gets today's date while it's being copied; then the date gets changed to the date from the source. I'm using Robocopy and I guess that's the way it maintains time stamps - it changes them when it's done updating a file or directory.

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Sorry. I hadn't updated my profile in a while. I've been on ATI 2018 for months.
" And if you switched NAS Units, why didn't you start over?"
Judging from ATI's (unwelcome) behavior, it looks like ATI will start over ...if it will start at all. At the moment it is asking me for (nonexistant) credentials for the public share and it won't let me cancel out. Maybe at some time in the past I let ATI write to a (now nonexistant) private share on the NAS. Bummer. I will probably have to boot out of this.
I don't want to start over in the backups because there was no logical change - same files, same folders. If I need to access a file from 2 weeks ago it will be using the backups from the old NAS. In two days the same activity will be using a backup from the new NAS. But 99% of the data will be the same. It's the same logical drive - just with a new name.
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Patrick, you will probably need to clear any stored credentials for the NAS that are used by ATI as per KB 58004: Acronis True Image 2016: Troubleshooting Issues Related to NAS Credentials as I suspect that changing the NAS has resulted in a change in this area unless the new NAS has assumed the exact same name and path as the old one?
Beyond that, you should be able to just reselect the Source data for the backup task within the ATI GUI.
Another approach could be to remove any existing backup task in the GUI and then use the Add existing backup option to add back the latest backup chain and then reconfigure the new task to pickup the new Source data.
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