Back-up With New Version
I have been using TI Home 2012 for a while. I'm bad - I do a full back-up but only about once a month. When I went to initiate a new, full, back up today, it said new version available so I let it download and install. I'm now on build 6154. The back-up seemed to go normally, about the same time but the total files are much smaller. The 2 previous back-ups were 99.1 and 99.2 GB but todays is only 58 GB. Noticed when I started that I had to change default incremental to full. As I recall I used to just accept normal compression and didn't see anywhere today to pick.
Like I say, it seemed to complete normally but I'm a little concerned. Any thoughts?
Thanks
Jim Kolsrud
Difficult to ascertain what you might have. For me, I would suggest you stop the old task and create a whole new task with a new backup file name and new storage folder and create a whole disk backup as illustrated below.
You can expect the backup size to be about 65-70% of used disk space.
OK - just got back. Just for fun, I did another back-up - as far as I know, just like this morning.
My previous 2 were 99.1 and 99.2 GB. What worried me this morning (new version) was that the back-up was 58.
The new back-up tonite was 98.5 GB. That may be believable since I compressed email and cleaned up some.
What's still scary is that I've never had to do a real restore. Honestly, don't know how. Don't know if all this is good or not. Almost wonder if I should go ahead and buy another hard drive - learn how to swap it out and try a full restore from my back-up (from an external USB hard drive) just to see if I'm really protected. I do worry - a lot - about a hard failure but don't know that I'm really protecting myself.
The next step would be to implement automatic incremental back-ups each day - or even more often.
I really don't know what I'm doing but would sure like to feel confident that I could recover from the inevitable failure.
Thanks for your suggestion. I'm trying to figure out what I should do next.
Jim
Difficult to ascertain what you might have. For me, I would suggest you stop the old task and create a whole new task with a new backup file name and new storage folder and create a whole disk backup as illustrated below.
You can expect the backup size to be about 65-70% of used disk space.
Hello GroverH, How did you open the window "configure disk backup process"?
Thanks for replying,
Delphinium
Delphinium,
The top half of the illustration is what is displayed when you click on "Switch to partition mode". It would be this screen if you want select single or multiple partitions (but less than all partitions). You may have to use the vertical scroll bar if you have multiple disks with multiple partitions.
From the "partition mode" you have the option to click on "Disk Mode". When you click on "disk mode", this opens up the option to select entire disks and this is the best option as it includes all partitions on the disk--which all are usually needed if you need to create a replacement disk.
Edit: For some users with lots of partitions, after selecting either the Multiple Partition mode or the disk mode, the screen may be oversize vertically and you will need to adjust the vertical size of the open window. Use the mouse pointer and grab hold of the window's top margin and drag the margin down toward the bottom of the screen until you can see the normal bottom listing. You may have to repeat the resizing more than once to get a normal size open window.
Hello GroverH,
thank you for your advice. Even with that, I could not find what could be the equivalent of "switch to partition mode" in the German version of ATIH2012, not even after downloading the latest version of ATH.
However, I could do backups of other partions than C:\ by hitting "backup files and volumes". So indirectly, the discussion gave me a solution.
Delphinium,
The backup of files is the same. The backup of files will not produce a replacement disk. You need the full disk backup.
Check out this link and download the link. Unzip the zip file download and run the screenshow. Maybe it will provide more details. I have no knowledge of the difference in the German versions. Let me know if this helps.