If during an incremental backup, there was a new bad sector that prevented some files or folders from being backed up. Will the previously backed up (good) versions of the files/folders automatically get restored during a restore operation? Or do you have to go in and select the previous good incremental to restore?

If the files/folders your are imaging have turned bad during the process, that means they are bad on the disk.  You will have to manually go back and restore previously "backed up" files to correct those anomalies.

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Froggie - 2 December 2019 1:58 PM

If the files/folders your are imaging have turned bad during the process, that means they are bad on the disk.  You will have toi manually go back and restore previously imaged files to correct those anomalies.

They are not images, they are file and folder backups, as the name of the forum says.

The answer's the same... the bad files will have to be restored MANUALLY.

Yes, your back up has what was on the Disk when you backed up. To recover previous versions of files you'll have to open a previous Back up in Windows and restore individual files one at a time just drag and drop.Its much better to just keep your data files on a separate drive from your OS

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Clinton Wright - 2 December 2019 10:03 PM

Yes, your back up has what was on the Disk when you backed up. To recover previous versions of files you'll have to open a previous Back up in Windows and restore individual files one at a time just drag and drop.Its much better to just keep your data files on a separate drive from your OS

Actually what I'm doing is transferring some folders from one drive to another drive, so the data didn't exist on the destination drive before, so it's a full restore from scratch, even though I'm using an incremental backup set here. It should go to previous backup sets to get all files anyways right?

@YKhan yes.  The Incremental backup file itself would only contain the files that have changed since the previous backup, but the backup still represents the entire state of the source data at the time the backup was captured.  So for example let's say you performed an Incremental backup on November 1, 2019 and that backup only had to capture one new file that had been created since your previous backup.  The Incremental file would be small, but if you chose to restore (or browse) that backup, you would see ALL of your source data the way it was as of November 1, 2019 when that backup was captured, not just that one file.  You would NOT have to first restore the Full backup then each successive Incremental to get back to that state or go through all of your previous backups looking for the last one that actually had to back up a new/updated version of that one file -- unless you had actually deleted the file of interest at some point, in which case you would have to find the most recent backup that was made while that file still existed.  The Search function in the File & Folder Restore interface can help with that process.  But the fundamental idea is that the user can always simply say, "Restore (or show me) my data as it was at the time of this backup I've selected", and Reflect in the background will pull the necessary content from the appropriate files in the backup set in order to reconstruct that state.