Scarecrow Man Posted January 9, 2007 Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 I've been making incremental backups for about a month now. Starting with backup, through backup35.I tried to restore backup35 because my computer had crashed because I installed a new keyboard (ZBoard. Not sure how it happened, but it crashed and said C:\Windows\System32\config\system was missing).So I used my acronis boot up CD, and went to restore the drive. It told me the archive was corrupted. Same message for every backup from 1-35, including the original.I then took the drive out of that computer, put it into a USB encolsure, and hooked it up to a working computer which also has Acronis. I then ran the restore from within windows, and it worked flawlessly, and only took 10 minutes for 30+ GB. I then plugged it back into the computer and installed the keyboard just fine. Everything is great now.I have no idea why this happened, but at least it worked. I am glad it worked, unlike my last experience with Acronis.Has anyone had this happen before? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagwoood Posted January 9, 2007 Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 Hi Scarecrow Man. On one occasion I had been messing around with my SATA drive(changing jumper settings/drivers)which happened to have 2 Acronis backup files on there as insurance; ie they were backups of backups. After I'd finished trying different configurations with the hard drive, I thought I'd check the image files, just to be safe, and one of them was corrupt. The original file on my dedicated backup drive was ok, so I put the corruption down to my "fiddling" It's not the same scenario as yourself, but I've come across a corrupt image file, even though it was of my own making, and it was bought on by changing hard drive configurations. Perhaps when you first ran a check there was something not quite right with the drive; i.e. bad connection somewhere, and by taking it out and putting it back in "cured" whatever was amiss.Thinking about it, by its nature the Acronis verifying s/w has got to be very rigorous while performing a check, so the slightest problem anywhere would generate an error message. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted January 9, 2007 Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 I have stopped taking incremental backups for two reasonsI use diskeeper which constantly defrags my hard drives and causes Acronis to back up all defragged files - even if they have not been changed. For this reason - a full back up does not take all that much longer than an incremental one.I also found out the hard way - that if one of the incremental backups in a series is corrupt - you cannot restore any of the later files. I therefore take a full back up each week, keeping 6 in the series, which is the maximum capacity of my external hard drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted January 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 I am using an IDE hard drive, and have not done any "fiddling" I just play World of Warcraft. I use my other computer for doing everything else.I really wouldnt mind having to format and reinstall, but the warcraft install takes a good hour, and then the update takes another hour. So formatting and everything included, I'd be looking at 3-4 hours just to format and reinstall 1 program.Alan - Excellent advice. I am going to disable my incremental backups tonight, and schedule a full backup. I never thought about that before. Although it was saying that every backup was corrupted, and in the end, none of them were.As for size, that's not an issue. I have a 160GB and a 40GB drive in my computer. I have a 200GB drive with programs and documents and just random stuff on it, and my computer upstairs has an 80GB SATA. Not to mention, several 20-60GB drives laying around. Thats 480GB and I plan on adding another 300-400 to that. "640k ought to be enough for anybody" :lol:In a week or so, I am going out to buy a 300+ GB hard drive, to back up both my Windows drive, and my files drive. (just in case) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lester1 Posted January 9, 2007 Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 I had a problem with corrupt Acronis back ups last year. These where full back ups and for no apparent reason showed up as corrupt (ie not an archieve file even though they were listed with the tib extension) when tring to restore. I ended up doing a clean install and had to reinstall all of the programs and such.I never deleted the "Corrupt" files and after some months just for the hell of it I tried a recovery from one of the corrupt files. Guess what it worked perfectly all of my lost piccys etc were back.Never did find out why despite some very helpful advice from the PCA forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted January 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2007 I had a problem with this same issue a while back. Here's my original thread:http://forums.windowsforum.org/index.php?showtopic=24287By the way, the name greater than 8 characters thing does not work. I think this may have something to do with Acronis, and not the images. If you look on the offical Acronis forum, there are many people with issues with 9.0 but it seems to have died in 10.0Offical Acronis Forum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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