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Best way to partially restore from a multiple-image archive?

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I use True Image Home 2010, with Windows XP Pro SP3. I'm a novice at the recovery part of the program.

I have an archive of a full backup and two later incremental backups, and want to restore all of the full and first incremental only. Post 21874 of this forum deals with that. But in addition, I want to restore selected files from incremental #2 - basically just user data files new or changed since incremental #1. I DO NOT want to restore any modifications to registry data, Windows system files, etc., contained in incremental #2.

Sooo -- after restoring all of full and increment #1, do I simply select incremental #2 in the archive and search through for the few files I want to restore? This would be tedious if everything from all three images were displayed, because the earliest full backup is big. It would be very nice to start with only those files explicitly contained in incremental #2. Is there a way to accomplish this?

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Speed,

This is what I would:
- restore your first incremental,
- mount the image of the second incremental,'
- install syncback on your computer, and create a sync profile from your mounted image to the restored disk,
- run a simulation. Syncback will show you all the files it found in the mounted image that are not on the restored disk,
- you can then select which ones you want deleted, updated, etc.

Gotcha. I don't know what Syncback is but I'll find out. Thanks a bunch, Pat L, this is just just what I hoped to be able to do.

Do you know which files you want? If so, open the backup and copy out the files.

Thanks again to Pat L. I'm back where I want to be, and Syncback was a big timesaver.