Your backup sets must be a right pain in the jacksie to set up & then having to add more backups to it,how long would that take to find every nook & cranny would'nt it be easier to make one time drive images instead that on reinstall will work with no reactivate crap,which is what will happen the way your doing it,not on the drive right now but if you reformatt it will & that will go for other apps that require activation also.The "Docs & Settings" folder can be scheduled to be backed up daily,weekly etc so can one time images of the whole drive,tho it would be better to start by reformatting & creating one time backups say 4 as your bases
1st:-OS only
2nd:-OS & a few most used apps but still keeping image small
3rd:-Update OS
4th:-Add everything else-this is your main fully operational image for emergency reinstall,i use it regularly..lmao..
5th.6th & so on scheduled one time images,when drive fills up delete as many as you need too as you already have your 4 base images at varying stages, depending on what new apps & hardware you may install,you wont loose anything if you also schedule "docs & settings" folder backup,that's emails also
Using the a ghost image browser you can retrieve anything you want,i have acronis 9.0 also but it does'nt browse i assume later versions do
You may wonder why i create one time images instead of differential or incremental,it's real simple apart from less files,there's less chance of data corruption
