Help TI 10 wanting volume 1 but why? where?

I need to restore my C drive that I have backed up on a external drive, everytime I try to restore it, it starts, then it asks for volume 1, and there is only one full backed up volume. What could it be looking for?

Please help.

Thanks, Riley

 

OK, this really sucks. Apparently when doing a incremental backup it creates huge mulitvolume backups instead of just doing a incremental backup. Wow, I'm begining to think all of my data is gone.

 

This is a bit confusing ... I thought you said, "there is only one full backed up volume." What version and build of TI are you using?

 

I can see how it would be confusing. I did a full back up of my c drive and the .tib file was 14GB, then I started doing incremental backups based on the original and I could see that it was 14+GB also. So I thought that the new file was the full backup plus the changes. I'm now finding out that it needs all of these big 14GB files to restore. I didn't want a a bunch of 14GB files using up HD space everytime I did a incremental back up so I deleted the old ones.
It seems I needed to save all of these big files in order to have the latest incremental backup. That doesn't seem logical but I think that's they way it works. I'm still waiting to hear from tech support.

Thanks, Riley

 

An incremental relies on having the full backup and every intermediate backup up to the last one you want to restore.

Normally when people have incrementals the size of the full backup or larger is because a defragging program has run since the last backup was done. An imaging program looks at an in-use sector map not the file system so a sector that is moved looks like a change to an imaging program even though the file data is still unchanged.