Validated True or False
Using 2011 home version and NO ONE at Acronis has a solution but has a work around that has me concerned.
Problem - my laptop C: drive was set to do Incremental BU's with validate after backup. This is working great. I am using a 2 TB USB drive called T: as a backup drive. Now I have a 1TB USB drive with about 400 gig of data on a drive called H: and it never successfully would do a backup and validate. It always would get to 99% and then the estimated time of completion went from 3 hours to 43,678 DAYS and it always failed. After a month of emails the solution was to turn off validate upon backup completion to see if it would do a backup. It has done a full and 2 incrementals successfully. I try to remember if I validated the days backup or not since I have no way of telling if a tib file has been validated. Actually I would love to know if we can verify if a tib file has been validated. Yes I know I can set auto validate to diferent times and conditions and am using this approach. It should be able to backup and validate a 400 gig backup the way it would 100 gig backup and I should be able to tell if a particular tib file got validated or not. Maybe call it a .vib file. Validated Image Backup. They could do that.
Well do have backups but do not feel secure until validated so my backups do not make me feel safe as they should. I might add that whatever tib file gets validated when the validate process has run is still unclear. Do all the tib version chain get revalidated each time or does it know to only do the latest non validated incremental tib file.
By the way I have 8 gig memory dual proc so I have enough resources to make this work but Acronis cannot get their software to complete a 400 gig backup and validate.
