u/humblequest22

I have a weekly backup that I wanted to run with forward incrementals forever, so I created it with 100 backups. Well, 100 isn't forever, so a couple weeks ago, it started rolling older backups into the original full backup. I was copying the new full backup to another drive and the system happened to run another backup at that same time, so it tried to roll the oldest backup into the file I was copying, but since I had it locked, the merge failed.

Now, when I try to run the backup again, I get the message below. I only found one reference to that error message and it was from 2016. Any thoughts on how I can get this backup chain functional again? I'm sure I can run a new Active Full, but I'd rather not because of the size. The new incremental seems to have been created OK, it's just the merge that failed. I'm not sure whether the backup chain is even useful for a restore at this point.

Error: Failed to repair VM 'VMNAME' in backup '9/30/2024 11:03:42 PM'. Unknown algorithm 'TransformForeverIncremental'

I'm looking at rebalancing my portfolio and as I'm purchasing bonds, I wanted to see if there are any alternatives to BND or AGG that people like. It seems to be generally agreed that, unlike the stock market, the bond market tends to be less efficient and therefore some benefit can be achieved from active management, even when paying a higher Expense Ratio.

Is VCORX/VCOBX (Vanguard Core Bond Fund) something that Bogleheads can get behind? The expense ratio is a little higher than BND's 0.03, at 0.20%/0.10%, but it doesn't seem to me to be too out of line.

I have a feeling that I'll get more pushback on this, but what about something like PYLD (PIMCO Multisector Bond Active ETF)? Higher expense ratio at 0.64%, but if it performs like PIMIX has, it seems to be worth it. Does even considering this get my BH card revoked? Are some using this or PONDX/PIMIX as the bond portion of their portfolio?

3/4 of the bond portion of my portfolio is already in Treasuries/TIPS, so this would be a single-digit percentage of my overall portfolio. I would be OK if VCORX and/or PYLD would be more correlated to equities than BND/AGG since the rest of my bonds are not.

Any other ideas out there or do we all just do BND/AGG?