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Using ATI Can't restore Outlook Address Book
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| I used Acronis True Image (ATI) to make a backup of the important
items on the drive of a WinXP notebook. It was some months ago, it was
the first and only time I use ATI, but I believe I backed up the mail
(I was using Outlook), and then I backed up the rest of the drive. I
think that's how I did it.
Anyway, that machine came to a violent end. I wouldn't give my wife
the keys to the truck, so she destroyed the computer in retaliation
(More than you wanted to know, perhaps :-) ).
Now I have a machine running Vista, and I have 6 DVDs from the
aforementioned backup operation. With some difficulty, I restored many
of the important files. But so far, I can't seem to get the Outlook
address book restored.
I start ATI v 11.0, run the Restore Data Wizard, select mail.tib on
the removable DVD drive, select the box for Outlook Address Book (that
is selecting OAB on the folder tree in the left pane of ATI), press
Proceed, then, after the progress-bars complete, the information box
says the operation was a success. But there's nothing new in Outlook
when I open it. Is the OAB restored somewhere? Where? Did it fail to
restore it? Basically, I want to get my old address book on this new
machine. What should I do? Or, can someone tell me what I did wrong?
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(||) Nehmo (||)
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| Wandering 2007-12-25, 1:18 am |
| Have you tried just mounting the backup as a drive on your machine, and then
dragging the folder you want to the location you need it?
It is quite likely that the folder that Outlook is storing in on the Vista
machine is very different from that on the XP machine.
Good luck
"Nehmo" <nehmo54@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I used Acronis True Image (ATI) to make a backup of the important
> items on the drive of a WinXP notebook. It was some months ago, it was
> the first and only time I use ATI, but I believe I backed up the mail
> (I was using Outlook), and then I backed up the rest of the drive. I
> think that's how I did it.
>
> Anyway, that machine came to a violent end. I wouldn't give my wife
> the keys to the truck, so she destroyed the computer in retaliation
> (More than you wanted to know, perhaps :-) ).
>
> Now I have a machine running Vista, and I have 6 DVDs from the
> aforementioned backup operation. With some difficulty, I restored many
> of the important files. But so far, I can't seem to get the Outlook
> address book restored.
>
> I start ATI v 11.0, run the Restore Data Wizard, select mail.tib on
> the removable DVD drive, select the box for Outlook Address Book (that
> is selecting OAB on the folder tree in the left pane of ATI), press
> Proceed, then, after the progress-bars complete, the information box
> says the operation was a success. But there's nothing new in Outlook
> when I open it. Is the OAB restored somewhere? Where? Did it fail to
> restore it? Basically, I want to get my old address book on this new
> machine. What should I do? Or, can someone tell me what I did wrong?
> --
>
> (||) Nehmo (||)
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> Have you tried just mounting the backup as a drive on your machine, and then
> dragging the folder you want to the location you need it?
When you say "mounting the backup as a drive" what do you mean? I can
put the DVD disk in the optical drive and it shows up in Windows
Explorer. Is that what you mean by "mounting"? Or do you mean to do
something else?
I have Daemon Tools, and I use that to "mount", but I understand that
I'm making a file look like a removable disk. With the current
problem, I already have the data on a removable disk. So what do I
mount? And how?
(||)Nehmo(||)
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| Wandering 2007-12-27, 7:15 am |
| Acronis provides either choice. You can explore it, but I am not sure you
can actually copy from that view. Or you can select mount it, and it appears
as a new (Not the CD/DVD) drive letter, as though the file was a disk drive.
You can find it in "Computer" or "My Computer" depending on your operating
system - I presume it's Windows. You mount the backup file, and Acronis lets
you choose which one. From that view you can navigate in Explorer and copy
what you wish. When you are finished, unmount it. It's been available since
at least Ver 8. You won't need any other software than Acronis to do this.
The "new" drive is read only.
It's pretty handy when all you need is some files or folders, and don't want
to do a full restore. I hope this helps you!
"Nehmo" <nehmo54@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> When you say "mounting the backup as a drive" what do you mean? I can
> put the DVD disk in the optical drive and it shows up in Windows
> Explorer. Is that what you mean by "mounting"? Or do you mean to do
> something else?
> I have Daemon Tools, and I use that to "mount", but I understand that
> I'm making a file look like a removable disk. With the current
> problem, I already have the data on a removable disk. So what do I
> mount? And how?
>
> (||)Nehmo(||)
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| Howard Kaikow 2007-12-27, 7:13 pm |
| What you did wrong was to not make a FULL image backup of ALL internal hard
drives.
Unless you really know what you are doing selectively backing up files is a
sure road to disaster, not to mention, I am not aware of ANY advantage to
using a file base backup rather than an image based backup.
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| Howard Kaikow 2007-12-27, 7:13 pm |
| You can copy files only if the MOUNT the approriae logical drives from thr
bacup archive.
See the TI Help, or User Guide< for how to do this.
Of course, TI 11 has the ludicrous "System State" which will cause grief,
i.e. mSFT's definition of system State allows th esystem Stae to be treated
as an enity, in particualar, one may not be able to recover individual files
that are part of the System State.
In the futurem, only do IMAGE based backup and the system State issue can be
avoided.
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| On Dec 27 2007, 3:58 pm, "Howard Kaikow" <kai...@standards.com> wrote:
> What you did wrong was to not make a FULL image backup of ALL internal hard
> drives.
> Unless you really know what you are doing selectively backing up files is a
> sure road to disaster, not to mention, I am not aware of ANY advantage to
> using a file base backup rather than an image based backup.
I agree, now that I have the experience to. But I wish I knew this
when I made the backup. I now don't think I actually backed up the
Outlook Address Book. Mounting via ATI accomplishes nothing.
I suppose I lost the OAB, and that's all there is to it. I had though
the backup was successful. I was pressed for time back then, and I
didn't bother to check it. I didn't know how, really. So I would have
had to learn, and that would have taken time. I just relied on the
announcement that the creation was successful. I believe I remember
something like that.
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Nehmo
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