Quirks of using USB External Disk
Using ATI Home 2010. I'm doing an incremental backup on a USB attached hard disk (not a flash disk). I've noticed a couple quirky behaviors and I'm wondering if these are "normal" for ATI. I'm on Win 7 Home Premium 64bit.
I power up and attach the external disk only when I'm going to do a backup. I let it mount and then open it up to make sure it is working fine and I usually make sure the ATI backups are there too.
Then I start ATI. It sometimes does not show the backup on the external disk and so I have to "Search for more backups" and then all is fine.
Seems to me it should see the backups on the external disk every time as long as I mount it and then start ATI.
After updating the archive yesterday (so that it added another incremental), I went to the Recovery tab and expanded the list of backups in the archive and it listed only the most recent incremental. The base and other incrementals were not listed. So I did a Search For More Backups and then the list was fully populated. Before I did the update, the list showed the base and all the incrementals.
There are quirks and it is easy to get by them. But the application should not have such quirks and I worry that I might not always be able to get by them.
Does anyone else see this kind of behavior?
--Larry
I see this behavior running ATI from a WinPE bootable disk (which is the only way I run it). I always have to browse for backups, but I figured this was because ATI is running from a ram disk with no "memory" of any previous session - it is always a fresh copy. But the archives are always there.
Depending upon how your are maintaining your backups, it could be possible that you could have overwrite issues unless you manually move them.
Hmmmmm..... That statement got my attention. Why would I have overwrite issues? Currently I have one archive/backup on the removable disk and it is an incremental backup (full base + incrementals). If I just keep doing "update" operations, how could something be overwritten?
I have not set limits on the backup. For example, there is no limit to the number of incremental backups.
--Larry
That have been numerous postings of archives being overwritten. I do not know whether this will happen to yours or not.
It is not wise to have an abundance of incremental backups because the rules of restore dictate that if one early incremental is corrupt then all the newer ones after that are worthless. This is why you need to begin a new set of backups when you reach your threshold of safety. The right of backups for you is up to you to determine. If you data rarely changes, then you could restore an old backup. Whereas, if you data changes frequently, you want to have a more recent backup and safety dictates that you have backup archives stores in multiple disks or places.
Some people move their archives from one folder or drive to another so they have little chance for overwrite. But if use the same folder for all your backups, then overwrite is certainly a possibility. If you are curious as to what others do, read some of the links listed under item #12 inside my signature index below.
I have my backup on an external drive connected to the USB port. If I had a HD problem, using the Recovery Disk (TIH10) could I access the external drive if active.
In other words, does this drive have to be made "bootable" or not?
The TI Rescue CD is bootable into TrueImage. Using the CD, you boot into TrueImage and from there you can create backups or restore files or partitions back onto the old disk; or use the backup to restore to a new disk.
The TI Rescue CD does not provide you access so you can run other programs from the CD. It is for the exclusive use of TrueImageHome.
The 1st paragraph I DO understand, as it just describes the way the rescue is performed.
I never wanted to use the external cd for any program. All I wanted to know is if I could access it, as the backup file is there.
If you don't understand my question, cancel my request, as I wouldn't know how to refrase it
Yes, using your recovery CD you should be able to access your backup on your USB disk. I say "should" because the only way to know for sure is for you to try it and verify everything is working.
OK. I'll try
Thank you
Hector,
As Pat L has indicated. When booted from the TI Rescue CD, you can use the Recovery option from the top line menu and choose the Recover Files option. TI will enable you to drill down the directory tree of the backup file and select the single or multiple files you want restored.
You can then select where you want the copies of the files restored to --such as their original location or to a usb flash drive, etc.
There are a variety options which you should explore as the restore dates, security, etc.
If you do not have 2011, you may want to download the trial version and try before buying.
Pat L, GroverH
Sorry. I do have the TIH2011 installed. I downloaded and install it recently and forgot the change in software.
Thank for reminding me about the root directory.
A separate question if I may. When I tried the Recovery disk (TI H2011) the graphics were horrible, as well as the use of the mouse (having to resort to F10) to use the arrows. Could this be because I have a very Old C Drive, not able to R-W ?
I have order a new one, to be able to burn data on CDs and DVDs.
If you know, OK, if not, is not a big deal
The link below may help. There has also been a couple of very recent posts indicating a bios change of increasing memory to the video cured their problems. I will try to do a search and see if I can find the reference.
GroverH,
It,s always nice to know you are not along.
Thanks a lot!