TI Can't Find Volume & terminates while trying to validate
I have TI Home 2010 & Windows XP (SP3). I schedule backups starting with a full backup & then an incremental every 2nd day, during the night. About once every 2 weeks, I find that the backup was made, but the the validation was not done successfully. The message is "terminated by user".
When I try to select the last incremental & validate it, after a couple of minutes, I get a message "Specify the location of volume X", where X is a number. I try to do so by navigating to the archive that I'm trying to validate, but I immediately get the same message "Specify the location of volume X". It says I have 10 minutes or it will terminate...which it does. It's very frustrating.
Does anyone have a solution to this?
Thanks, Phil
How many incremental backup files is based on the last full backup?
Ultimately, you will proably need to stat over with a new backup scheme but some changes of options may be needed--depending upon your response.
Also, the editing or changing of a task can cause issues.
Do you know whether any of your settings involve consolidation?
Thanks to Grover & you for responding so quickly. I am backing up to an external drive connected by a USB port. It does have an assigned letter. I have 2 external drives named "Backup1 (D:)" & "Backup2 (E:)" respectively. I use only 1 of them at a time for a couple months. I make a full system backup, followed by incremental backups every 2nd day, until I get 30-40 of them.
Then I start the other external drive & repeat the process. I can get 2 complete archive sets on each drive. Then I delete the oldest.
Most of the time, I have no problem. But once every 2 weeks or so, I check the log & see that it says "terminated by user" during validation, yet I can still mount the drive & copy files, if necessary. Then, when I try to validate, I get the message about not being able to locate Volume # & the threat to terminate.
There are many times that when this has happened, I used a utility called "Unlocker", which unlocks the volume from Windows Explorer. Often, this helped, although sometimes I had to do this several times. This last time, I navigated to Volume 21 (the one it couldn't find), & it told me it was corrupt (first time that happened). However, I started to validate that volume, but I stopped after about 12 minutes because, when there's a problem, it has always happened within about 8 minutes.
I hope I've given enough detail. This is really puzzling.
Oh, I do not consolidate any archives & use normal compression.
Thank you both for your time & knowledge.
I would strongly recommend that you reduce the number of incremantal--perhaps by 50%. That is subjective amount but the point being that when a restore of an inc backup is made--for example inc #35, the restore must read and restore the full plus all 35 inc files. If #20 happens to not be readable, then then restore to #19 is the only alternative. Therefore, more frequently full backups offers more safety of data.
Thanks, Grover. I can see your point. The reason I do so many incremental backups is that I haven't had to do a restore in about 8 years & full backups take a lot of room & more time. One of my externals is 232GB & the other is 149GB. A full backup takes about 50GB, so I can only fit about 2 archive chains by the time I do the incrementals. I will rethink my backups, though, & appreciate your advice.
Maybe consider a larger storage disk.
An external usb disk costs about $100 for a 1 or 2 Terrrabyte size disk.
Thanks, that's a good idea. Although I'm still puzzled why TI all of a sudden can't find what seems like a perfectly good archive, but then once it does, it works for awhile until it has trouble with another archive.