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How can I generate a list of files that were backed up in an Incremental Backup?

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I would like to obtain a list of the files that were backed up in an incremental backup. From other forum posts, it doesn't appear to be a feature, but it's hard to tell.

Here are my configurations:

Acronis True Image Home 2011
Windows 7 Professional, service pack 1

My backups is a File Backup, using a customer backup scheme with a backup method of incremental.
I have it scheduled to run daily and it has been running for a week.
I see my initial .TIB file is large, and then every day there are small .TIB files being created.

I simply want to know what changed? What files were backed up between 1 day to the next.

Any help on how to solve this puzzle would be appreciated.

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You cannot easily and out of the box with Acronis. If you really want to do that, you would have to restore your backup in another folder and then use folder comparison tools to assess the differences.
For example: http://filesync.duplicate-finder-download.com/

What does Acronis use as a criteria for choosing files to back up? I change one 6 mb file and Acronis backs up 217 mbs. What is that all about?
Sometimes it is a huge amount of data which I have not accessed for years.

For a disk and partition backup, ATI looks at all sectors on the disk that have changed. Windows makes changes to the disk without changing your files (shadow copies, indexes, temp files, log files, ...).
For a file backup, ATI relies on the file system information changes.

Ok, so for a "file backup" (not a disk or partition backup) is it possible to discover which files were backed up in a particular incremental TIB?

I have this need because ATI has suddenly started backing up 1GB a day and I need to find out what it is so I can prevent it. This is an incremental "file backup" not a disk or partition backup - so surely ATI is only backing up files that actually changed. Shouldn't it be easy to discover which files those were?

I'm running ATI 2013.

Sorry, but there is no easy way.

Does your file backup include system files or folders? the c:\users\UserA\appdata folder? PST file?

My backup excludes *appdata* so it's not that. Not using Outlook, so no PST files.

Please consider adding this capability to ATI. It seems to have some demand from users and is disappointing not to have.

Can you verify that your exclusion is working? Enable view hidden files in Windows Explorer, then double click on your TIB file and double check that it is excluded. YOu might find some other hidden file there as well (volume information, etc.)