TI 2011 not last volume & other issues
Yesterday I attempted to install DD10 on my Win7 x64 system and all attempts failed (another issue in the forum). I have a few issues with TI 2011 on this system.
1) If I attempt to use TI 2011 and access one of the backups I'm informed that it is not the last volume. I've selected the lasted file available why is this not the last volume? Also I thought I could select any file and restore at that point. Example: let's say that I have 5 incremental backups and I want to restore at the level where incremental 2 was created, can I do this?
2) I've setup incremental and as I understand the setup TI should create 6 (I picked 6) incremental backups and then create a full. Thus every 7 days I should have a complete set and then TI should start again. I've also limited the number of sets to 5. However as I view the backups I don't see a full BU being created after 6 incrementals? Any idea what I've done wrong?
3) I've been backing up to an internal RAID 6 on the system and when I boot the Acronis recovery CD and view the list of backups I cannot just click on a backup and restore. TI cannot find the backup. I have to browse for the files then when I select the latest file (the one created two days ago) I'm informed that this is NOT the last volume. What is going on here? I'm totally confused.
I'm sorta screwed. I was attempting to restore to resolve a BSOD issue that I cannot seem to resolve (computer repair will not fix the issue, I cannot use system restore to restore (it fails), when I attempt to boot into safe mode I get BSOD. I tried booting using the last known good configuration (BSOD). It seemed that my only recourse was to use TI and restore the HD. TI fails when I select any of my TI files (not the last volume).
What is your BSDO code? Any chance you modified some disk bios setting?
Do all your ATI TIB files create the "not the last volume"?
What it your OS? A repair install of Windows works great with Win7 and is painless (doesn't delete programs and settings, etc.).
BSOD code I'll have to give it another try to get the code
I found at least one TIB that does not create "not the last volume" but when I select it I then see an image window (looks like the backup set) with several incremental TIB files and one Full TIB file. I selected the newest incremental TIB file and a window pops up requesting "Specify location of the volume 3". I have no idea what this is.
In the window there are three buttons (Browse, Retry, Cancel) and no matter which I click on TI seems to freeze. I'm forced to power off and reboot the system.
Regarding my OS (do you need anything other than what is in my signature? Desktop-S4 (Win7 Ultimate x64, 16GB RAM, 12TB, Dual Monitors, GeForce GTX470))
I have TI build 6857
I've tried more of the TIB files and went back to late April and found a file that seems to be working. TI is now running step 1 of 3.
Pat - ref "2) If you have changed the auto-cleaning retention settings, you have to wait a while before ATI adjusts. For example, if your setting was 4 incrementals, and you change it to 5 after ATI has done already 3, you will end up with 3+5 incrementals before the next full, then the new 5 rule will kick in. It is a different behavior if you reduce the setting. Not intuitive, maybe."
I've not changed the TI settings for at least a couple of months and I don't recall the exact settings at this time. Assuming my restore works I'll check the settings and let you know.
I just noticed that in step 1 of 3 of the restore it is recovering the partition sector by sector. Should this be the case? I don't think I selected the option to back up by sector.
Under certain circumstances ATI switches automatically to sector by sector.
If ATI asks you for volume 3, this is the 3 backup in the chain (the first full one is volume 1).
You will need to start a new task: move the TIB files you want to keep to another folder on the same disk, delete your backup tasks and set new ones up.
OK I'm trying again, the first attempt seemed to work at least TI claimed it worked but the system would not boot.
I got around the volume 3 question by selecting an older incremental TIB file, as it turned out the file I selected was volume 3.
When you say "You will need to start a new task: move the TIB files you want to keep to another folder on the same disk, delete your backup tasks and set new ones up." Do you mean after I get the drive restored, e.g. start a new backup task? Or is this something I should do now? If now I cannot because the backups are located on my RAID and I cannot move anything off of it until either I get a drive restored or I continue with the rebuild of another drive. BTW I have several spare drives, currently I'm working with three drives where drive 1 is my BSOD drive, drive 2 is the drive I'm restoring to and drive 3 is the drive were I started the rebuild.
After I get the system going again I'm going to copy all the data off of the RAID 6, remove the drives and controller, install six 3TB drives and create three RAID 1 arrays. Then I will copy my data back to the new RAID 1 arrays. This of course will take a week or so.
Pat, thanks for your help!!!!
I meant you should start a new task after your restore, yes. As you install the 3TB, you will probably have GPT disks. For ATI to work with these, you will need the Plus Pack or you will have to create partitions that are smaller than 2TB. I don't know if these requirements are true only for the disk and partition backups, or for both file backups and disk and partition backups.
OK this time I had success. Now I need to determine the actual state of my software a lot of my applications are trying to update themselves.
Thanks again for the help! More later as I move forward.