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Will installing 2013 preserve my Update backup links from 2010?

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I've been using True Image Home and Plus Pack 2010 for backup. I just bought True Image and Plus Pack 2013. When I go to install it, it says I must first uninstall the 2010 versions. In 2010 there are Update links to do incremental updates for my two hard drives. Will I lose those links when I install 2013 and have to do full backups? I don't have the disk space for two more full backups.

Also, I have tried to ask this question twice this evening on the Live Chat and no one ever answers it at Acronis.

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TI 2013 will recongise your existing images, however it won't automatically set up a task for them, you will need to make a new task and point it to the existing images. I have a feeling though, that it might make a new full due to the new file naming system it uses.

Colin, "On a clear disk you can seek forever" LOL!

"I have a feeling though, that it might make a new full due to the new file naming system it uses."

I would like a more definitive answer about whether TI 2013 will make a new full backup or not before I install it. There is not enough disk space left on my 1 TB external drive to make full backups of two HDs. If it is going to make new full backups, I will wait a few months to install it when the current backup drive gets full and I buy another one.

Using TI 2013 would I be able to browse and restore from the images created by TIH 2010?

David,

Colin is right. The best practice, at any rate, is to create new backup chains when you install a new version. Follow these steps for seamless transition:
- using Windows explorer, move all your existing TIB files to another directory on the same disk,
- uninstall ATI 2010 using the control panel
- reboot
- install 2013
- create new backup tasks.

If you had had 2012 (or 2011 I believe) you could have installed 2013 in place. You would have found your old backup tasks intact. Since you have moved the existing TIB files, 2013 would have automatically created new fulls.

I hope the above comments are not true and that there is some conversion/upgrade method available from 2010 tib files to 2013 files.

The whole point of using Acronis is to make life simple for my client.

If he now has to start all over again just because he has upgraded to a new version his attitude to Acronis will not be a favorable one.