Why is my backup being split?
I am doing a full backup to a 2TB NTFS external USB drive on my Win7x64 PC. The drive has about 500GB free. I have Backup Splitting set to 200GB. Running Acronis 2014 gives me a v1.tib of about 11GB, and a v2.tib of about 71GB.
Why does it split this backup? I would like to keep everything in one .tib if possible.
See http://kowallekfamily.com/temp/acronis.png or attachment.
The only other options on the Advanced tab besides Backup Splitting that are checked are...
Removable media settings -> Ask is checked
Error handling -> Repeat is checked
If you need anything else, just ask.
Thanks,
Dennis
It might help to see a capture of your storeage drive with the contents shown in "detail mode"
Along the way to now, has this backup task been changed or edited with any change of specs?
The rules I practice is that "no edits or changes allowed" except for scheduling and that can be done from the main menu without going into edit mode for the task. If changes needed, I stop using the task and create a new task. Changing a task rarely produces the desired results and the edits is just delaying the inevitable of starting a new task.
The next time you create a new task, consider some changes.
1. Change the type backup from a partition type to disk option type. This is illustrated in first picture of signature link 2 below.
you are currently backing up all but there are added restore benefits which the backup is complete "disk image." Also, the new tib storage folder should always be a new & empty folder or sub-folder. With me, there is no intermixing of backups files. Each task has its own storage folder.
2. Change the backup scheme so it will include "automatic cleanup" which will enable automatic retention of a set number backups and enable the program to delete the excess once the retention reaches your specified number of tib backup chains to be retained. The illustrations shows keeping 4 full backups on a rotating basis but you can change that to a different figure when starting new.
GH11. Create Custom Full Backup Scheme. Rotate Keeping 4 newest versions (backups) (chains).
This almost looks like it did a split when I didn't want, something strange happened anyway. Normally I have it set up to do a full backup at 4:30AM on Monday and keep only 6 copies. As you can see from the attachment that worked fine on 5-12, 5-19, 5-26, and has worked fine for the last year or more.
But lately I been converting VHS tapes to DVDs. I wanted to do an extra backup or two in case I really screwed up. So on 5-31 at 7:33am I bought up my Acronis backup and clicked on run now, which I have done many times as I get ready to do something I might wish I hadn't. From everything I seen it appeared to go just fine. I did not go to explore to check.
Then today 6-2 around 7:15am I decide to run another full because my regular Monday AM backup failed , it failed because I had an Acronis backup mounted as a drive K. The log shows at 4:30am it failed. I unmounted that via Acronis, I had done it earlier through disk manager, but that didn't work all that well, it appeared to work, but not to Acronis, learned something there.
Look at the attachment, it looks like the 5-31 backup started at 733AM has a vol 2 that was created on 5-31 at 842PM, with a modified date as 6-2 716AM, which just happens to be when I started my full backup because of the mount problem.
Then I forced another full backup at 1209 today as I didn't feel comfortable with the earlier backup. It went fine, no splits. I have never seen anything split like that backup started on 5-31. Also I notice that there are 7 files, but only 6 backups which matches my setup of keeping only 6 backups. However I don't feel that one backup is valid, maybe I should run a validate? Not worried about any of this, just find interesting.
Yes, Jarrold that is an odd circumstance but maybe understandable from the program standpoint about the disk already mounted.
Would the mounted backup cause the target disk to be assigned a different drive letter? It wold if the drive letter was auto-assigned whatever comes up next, versus the target disk having a pre-assigned letter.
One quick way to look insdie the backup file, without using the mount procedure, is to
from inside the task, click on the destination folder in uppper left task corner to cause the target folder to open and display all the files--just l ike your attachment.
Then, from inside the open folder, double click whichever file you wish to examine.
The backup file will open using Acronis Explorer just like the mouted view.
That is how I usually look at and restore one file from a TI image, just use explore/file manager.
Was just playing with the mount command in Acronis as I had been making VHD from the Windows 7 image file, which work amazingly well (that was more experimenting just to see if it worked). Then I went and used disk management to delete the Acronis K drive, which appeared to work, didn't show up in explore, but found out that I need to use the unmount of Acronis to actually get it gone. I do a weekly image with TI and a monthly image with Windows.
I need to stop playing around and stick with what I know works.