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Acronis 8 backup/restore
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| Ken Brazos 2005-10-28, 8:45 pm |
| Several months ago I backed up my C Drive (OS and apps) to my G Drive
(data, backups, etc) with Acronis 8. I immediately verified the file and
it confirmed OK. Yesterday I wanted to restore my C Drive from the
backup copy. I first ran a verify again and all was OK. But when I
started the restore, I got message "Corrupted File". This screwed up my
C Drive on the reformat so that my OS wouldn't load and I couldn't boot.
Fortunately, I had another C Drive backup on a removable HD (I am
paranoid) and was able to get back into business.
Any ideas??? I am now afraid to use Acronis as a backup tool.
Thanks!
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| Ken Brazos wrote...
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>Several months ago I backed up my C Drive (OS and apps) to my G Drive
>(data, backups, etc) with Acronis 8. I immediately verified the file and
>it confirmed OK. Yesterday I wanted to restore my C Drive from the
>backup copy. I first ran a verify again and all was OK. But when I
>started the restore, I got message "Corrupted File". This screwed up my
>C Drive on the reformat so that my OS wouldn't load and I couldn't boot.
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>Fortunately, I had another C Drive backup on a removable HD (I am
>paranoid) and was able to get back into business.
Is it a Acronis TI8 backup? If yes, it works.
>Any ideas??? I am now afraid to use Acronis as a backup tool.
It may probably what the error told you: "corrupted file".
I have use Acronis TI8 for backup / restore many many times without
problem.
If you are paranoid, try the following steps.
1. back up your C drive to an image on your G: partition.
2. restore the image to an empty partition other than your C: parition.
If OK, the image has no problem.
I hope you have a good sleep tonight 
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| Ken Brazos 2005-10-29, 5:46 pm |
| Harry--
Thanks for your speedy response. Pardon my ignorance, but what is "TI8
Backup"? I simply used the wizard and followed the steps (in DOS BTW).
What I don't understand is why Acronis confirms the backup as OK but
that when I try to restore, I get message "corrupted file" (which, of
course, screws up my C Drive).
Your idea of backing up to another drive as a test is a good one. THen I
can "clone" back to the C Drive.
Again, please tell me what a TI8 Backup is. Thanks.
"Paranoid Me"
In article <4Ay8f.75995$Io.37913@clgrps13>, harryooopotter@hotmail.co_
says...
> Ken Brazos wrote...
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> Is it a Acronis TI8 backup? If yes, it works.
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> It may probably what the error told you: "corrupted file".
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> I have use Acronis TI8 for backup / restore many many times without
> problem.
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> If you are paranoid, try the following steps.
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> 1. back up your C drive to an image on your G: partition.
> 2. restore the image to an empty partition other than your C: parition.
> If OK, the image has no problem.
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> I hope you have a good sleep tonight
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| Ken Brazos wrote...
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>Harry--
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>Thanks for your speedy response. Pardon my ignorance, but what is "TI8
>Backup"? I simply used the wizard and followed the steps (in DOS BTW).
>What I don't understand is why Acronis confirms the backup as OK but
>that when I try to restore, I get message "corrupted file" (which, of
>course, screws up my C Drive).
TI8 Backup = Backup by Acronis TrueImage version 8.
Acronis has tons of products; so I prefer using TI8 to denote TrueImage 8.
Nevermind what TI8 says.
I restore the backup image; if it restores OK, the backup is OK.
I usually don't try to restore images to check their integrity.
I keep two generations of backups, say, backup-from-10days-ago,
and backup-from-20days-ago. If the latest one goes wrong, I will
use the previous one.
My first-generation backups never fail me. So, I don't need to go
through the previous generation copies.
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