[soxford47]

I made backups on my iDisk using the Backup 3.11 software, and then wiped my hard drive for a fresh install. I now have things up and running again and I want to recover the files. When I hit the "Restore" button on the first screen of Backup, I can tell it to look at my iDisk and I can even choose a file to restore. So that all seeems fine except I get this message:
"If you choose to restore from this backup, you will only be able to restore files contained in this backup"
The problem is that there are 10 files all as a part of the 1 backup I made. The message sounds like it's only gonna let me pick 1 of the 10 files for some reason. I couldn't find a way to select all of the files and I really don't want to somehow get locked out of these files. Anyone know what's up?

[soxford47]

hmm, does nobody use this program? I sure wish I hadn't tried to...

[griffman]

Sounds like you have incremental backups but not the master copy. Do you have any files that end in ".FullBackup" in the list?
-rob.

[soxford47]

All 10 of the Backup files were created at the same time as part of one Backup plan I had used. Since it was large, I had it on manual scheduling, and I had only told it to run once. I thought they all had "FullBackup.Part#" in their names. I got the files back by telling it to restore from #10 (the last one), instead of #1, which I was trying to use before. Now I'm making a more understandable backup plan for myself and watching it create the files so I get the naming structure. Maybe I'm remembering wrong and really only the 10th one said FullBackup and the rest had a slightly different name? Blah, sorry to bother with my own incompetence if that's the case.

[quicktimekirk]

You backed up to and external drive?
And the file format of that drive is FAT 32, or worse, FAT 16?
One of Backup's jobs is to make a disk image file and that file can be much larger than the 2 or 4 GB limits of those file storage systems.
Backed up a 40GB "Home" folder to a FAT 32 drive and it would be forced to write the files in ten "parts" instead of one file.

[soxford47]

I backed up to my iDisk, but the size of the backup was not bigger than my iDisk could handle. I have a 160GB SATA drive I'm planning to use for this soon but I have to get an enclosure first.
To test the naming I made a backup of that same data on my iDisk after recovering it to my HD and deleting the old backups. It's a ~1GB folder of assorted stuff. Here are the names Backup gave the files it created on the iDisk.
Northwestern - 2007.07.23-10.43.43.016 - Part 1.FullBackup
Northwestern - 2007.07.23-10.43.43.016 - Part 2.FullBackup
And so on down to Part 10. I also created some other separate backup files of unrelated documents and they all follow the same naming structure, except they're small enough they don't have part numbers so they just have ".FullBackup" after the timestamp. I guess you're just supposed to know somehow which Part to use for it to actually restore all of them.