backing up multiple computers to external hard drive (NTFS)
Hi, I several Windows computers in my house and I like to put all my backups on a single external hard drive (formatted as NTFS). I have struggled with file permissions on this hard drive and thought I solved the issue by setting the security on this hard drive where "Everyone" has "Full Control".
Just today I went to a different computer and ran Acronis True Image Home 2009. It was able to create a folder on this hard drive but when I went to create a backup file in this folder, the application complained that I did not have permission to access this folder. I went back to windows and verified that I could create a text file in this folder so I didn't see the issue. I struggled with this for 20-30 minutes and then found that I had to change the owner to myself.
I think having the hard drive set to "Everyone - Full Control" should be adequate. Why does TI Home 2009 require the owner to be set?
Thanks,
Matt
I've given up.
Gonna re-format the external HD to see if all goes back to normal.
Having "Everyone" and "Anonymous" set to full control did not help.
Changing ownership to myself doesn't do much because starting up TI 2010 from the CD doesn't require a log-on
Well, reformatting the drive didn't help.
What's odd is that this drive works fine when plugged into a number of XPpro or W2K machines, even when the user logged on as simple user.
Some history:
Laptop is new Dell Latitude E5510 (i5).
Originally came with W7 pro, but needed specifically XPpro which Dell said could no longer provide, but that i could downgrade to XPpro by installing myself.
So I put away the original drive and install a Hitachi drive 130gig 7200rpm drive.
After several failled attempts at installing XPpro, later discovered that the BIOS needed SATA settings changed. Instead of AHCI (default), it needed to be changed to ATA.
So finally got XPpro sp3 updated etc. All works fine.
Now i want to do image backup .TIB to an external USB drive which is a Seagate GoFlex USB 3.0 3 TB desktop drive. I use my original TI Home 11.
Hmmm, I see the USB drive but not the internal drive.
I switch the BIOS back to AHCI and now i see both the Internal and external drives (see attached file Acronis_Photo-C.jpg). I select all the partitions of the internal drive then go next to selected the destination and, poof, gone is the external drive D: (see attached Acronis_Photo-D.jpg)
So i go out and buy the newer TIH 2010 and find i have issue with it on other machine with different problem, so download the latest build 7154 which helped the non-related problem.
With this new build, i can now see both internal (disk 2) and external drive (disk 1 F:) while under the SATA bios mode ATA (see attached Acronis_Photo-A.jpg).
However, when I try to create a new folder or write to the external drive i get Error "The file name, location or format is invalid (location). Please type the name or location in the correct format".
There were previous files on there, but these could not be read (were not displayed) even though later confirmed when under windows that these files were still in-tack.
At first I thought that security was an issue, so I tried CACLS and tried to but eveyone and anonymous as full control, but no success. I even tried reformatting (NTFS) but still no luck.
So, what can i do next ?
Your F: disk is a 3TB disk. So it is not a disk with a regular MBR, but a GPT disk most likely because an MBR work for up to about 2TB. I doubt that you version of Acronis supports GPT disks. Hence it doesn't see it as a possible destination
See this: http://kb.acronis.com/content/6533
You need 2010 with plus pack or 2011 with plus pack to have support for GPT/dynamic disks.
Thanks for the response Pat.
You're probably right. I tried another Seagate external 1TB version and no issues.
Maybe I should repartition this into 2 separate 1.5TB chunks to provide better backwards compatibility.
Thanks Again
You can do this. No partition should exceed 2TB, and you are fine.