Home Edition 2011 Image Backups Keep Getting Corrupted
Home Edition 2011 Image Backups To External Hard Drive Keep Getting Corrupted. What's going on? The computer is fine and so is the hard drive.
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Steven,
Pat L raises a good point. You will also get that corrupt message when using an older version to do functions on a newer version backup.
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Well that is kind of dumb. If the backup is fine and the update can read the backup, it should not report as corrupted. I just lost some time to this issue. I hope that is all it is.
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Do not trust the banners that hang under the backup tasks. They are out of sync. Make sure the log is telling you that you restore/validation failed because the backup file is corrupted.
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I know I do not feel confident if the backup say corrupted. I don't want to keep the backup as currupted only to try it when I need it and it is truly corrupt.
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Hi Ziggy,
You are right to be worried if something says "the backup is corrupted". The point is that depending on the case, this message has varying level of impact on the level of confidence:
- if the message appears after completion of the backup in the Acronis UI, this might not be serious at all, go to step A below anyway,
- if the message appears in the log after completion of the backup, that is more serious, go to step A,
- if the message appears after a validation run, this is as serious as the case above. Go to step B you absolutely need the backup, or do another backup and rerun the validation.
Note that you should always make sure that a full backup or a backup chain is validated once.
Note also that the best practice is to run regular validations from the recovery CD, so that you verify that your CD is still usable at the same time you validate your backup.
Step A> Run a validation on the backup. If the validation goes through with success, well there is no issue. If not,
Step B>
- run the validation from the recovery CD, if it fails,
- move the TIB files to another location, rerun the validation, if it fails,
- move the TIB files to another location on another computer and rerun the validation. If it still fails, you are stuck. If it doesn't fail then, you have a hardware issue. Run MemTest86 to verify your memory. Check your ports/network connections.
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