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Accidental manual sleep during a long backup job

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While a backup job was running, the screen had turned off and I thought the computer was off, so I pushed the power button on my PC to wake it up. However, it already WAS on and running the backup. Therefore, my push of the button caused the PC to enter sleep state (NOT hibernate, just sleep state).

Realizing what I had done, I pushed the power button again to wake up the PC for real this time. After waking up, the ATI2013 backup job, that had been running before I pressed the button the first time, continued running, with no error message nor any indication that something bad had happened.

When the backup job finishes, should I consider it a "good" backup? Or was the backup in reality corrupted by the short sleep period I accidentally put the computer into?

Thanks,
Jim

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One more piece of information: the interrupted backup is now finished, and the log indicates completed successfully. Should I trust this?

Depending on how deeply your PC sleeps, it is possible that True Image was able to continue albeit very slowly or at least cache its' operations. Your image is more than likely OK, the only way of checking with 99% certainty is to run a validation task on the image.

If this is a complete disk or partition image you could also try mounting the image, if it mounts successfully I'd say you have a 95% chance the image is OK.