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Successful validation will not guarentee a restoration?

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4. Why should I perform a test restore? Isn't validating the backup sufficient to know that the restore will work when needed?

Validation cannot give you a 100% guarantee that the backup is not corrupt. Performing a test restore will allow you to cover that little percentage not covered by validation.

Perhaps someone would like to qualify this statement and explain why a fully validated backup may fail to restore.

I am assuming here that there is NO hardware fault with the system being used for the restoration.

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"The operation was a success, but the patient died." :)
Validation is not the only issue. There are many factors at play when restoring.

Disk and partition restores should be performed from the ATI bootable Rescue Media. Acronis is always adding support form more hardware to that media, but sometimes a hardware combination isn't fully supported (often due to some new component). That's why we recommend that you test by restoring a couple of files, so you know it works before you have an emergency.