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TI 2011 Backup Consolidation Explore

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I decide to try the consolidation function of True Image Home 2011 build 6696 to consolidate a full backup and two incrementals.

I followed the tutorial and selected the last incremental update, since it said that it would integrate that last incremental with the updates before it.
So far so good.
It producted a single .tib file.

I validated it and was able to mount it but if I double click on the file to explore it I get an error.
It open a documents window looking for the volume with number 3. The It gives and error that it can't find that file.

Any suggestions?

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You will get better results if you create a new task and set the consolidation options as part of the initial task.

Thanks for the reply.

For some reason, the particular backup that I tried t consolidate had the Authenticated Users privileges limited.
Once I set it to Full Control, I am able to explore it as normal.

Thanks again,

Paul

I believed that this issue was resolved but it turns out that is not a permissions problem after all.

What happens is that when I try to explore a consolidated backup, it looks for the components of the backup before consolidation.

When it was giving the error, I had deleted the components.
When I copied them back from an external disk to redo the consolidation, thinking it was corrupt, I left the components on the disk, when I tried to explore. Since it found them, explore worked.
Any ideas? I can't believe that you must keep a copy of the backup and the incrementals in order to explore the consolidated backup.

This is might just be a bug.

I agree with Grover H.

Frankly, if you can, stay clear of auto-consolidation, and just run series of full+incrementals/differentials with some retention rules. I find these backups more reliable and simple to deal with.

Hello all,

Thank you for posting and helping. I will do my best to assist you.

pbcopter, according to our Testing lab and just in case, I ran a quick test on my virtual machine, there are no such issues with consolidations that you reported. It is possible it occurs on your machine because of some settings.

I was wondering if you can try running manual consolidation a couple of times and check if this can be consistently reproduced?

Please let me know if you have additional questions.

Thank you.