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Validation: Specify Location of Volume X

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TIH Home 2010. I've seen a number of posts with a similar topic, but no indication of a permanent resolution. I run full disk backup with incrementals daily. I do a validation as part of the backup task. Today the 7th file in the set was generated and, a few minutes after the start of the validation part of the scheduled task, I received a popup : "Specify the location of Volume 6 (or task will be canceled in 10 minutes." (or something similar). Not being sure exactly what "Volume 6" was referring to, I elected to cancel and run the validation as a separate task, since the log indicated that the backup task portion had completely satisfactorily.

I always backup to the same drive. The initial backup was 100GB and the incrementals are 1-2GB. The disk drive (an external USB drive) presently has about 285GB free. I have not set consolidation or anything else within Acronis that should be causing a space problem.

After the above, I manually started a "validation" task by navigating to the Recovery pane; right-clicking on today's incremental backup; and selecting Validate Archive. It seems to be running satisfactorily and not having any problems finding these "Volumes" (it's 51% complete at this time, whereas previously it errored at about 1 minute).

So something caused a glitch. Hopefully temporary. But why? This task was newly created about a week ago.

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Hello Ron,

Thank you for posting. I will do my best to assist you with this problem.

The error message "Specify Location of Volume" can appear if the external USB drive was disconnected at some point in time, however, our Testing Lab has tried reproducing this issue without any success, validation was always successful.

Would you be kind enough to edit your scheduled task and provide me with screenshots of each setting of your backup task.

Please let me know if you have additional questions.

Thank you.

I have the same problem "Specify location of the volume 10" and I also get a bubble "operation paused...." so I cannot back up. It happened after I disconnected my computer for a day from the external drive (LaCie).

Please help!

Zuzana,

This means that ATI has lost track of the previous backup. This can happen because the drive letter of your backup drive has changed after disconnecting/reconnecting it. It is better to assign a fixed drive letter to the backup drive.

If this is not the reason, the message should allow you to browse to the 10th backup in your backup chain. The first full backup is volume 1, then the first incremental or differential is volume 2, etc

If fixing the drive letter is not enough or if you cannot browse to the backup, you should start a new task, with a new name.