Backup failed message
I have been using True Image 2010 successfully for years doing full and incremental backups of my full system. Recently I started doing data file backups and can do them ok, but now I cannot do full system backups on two external drives I've been using successfully for a long time. Failure message says "Operation with partition 2-0 was terminated. Invalid file reference. (0x7001A) Tag = 0xEF8B1618A4C0DE18." Any ideas about what is wrong?
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Thanks GroverH. Actually I'm anal about never keeping external drives plugged into the USB port I always use for backups. I back up to two different external hard drives, never at the same time and always plug into the same USB port. So the disk ID is always the same whether I do a full system backup or just my data files. The data files back up fine now but the problem occurs when I try to do a system backup on the same drive I just did a data backup to. The reason for all the the duplication is my computer has all my business software and files on it.
Perhaps I should try using a different USB port for each drive or for full system backups.
Thanks for reminding me to do file error checks on all of the drives. Strange though that the problem occurs on both backup drives. You might think one has errors but both? at the same time? It's possible I guess. I'll do the checks anyway.
Thanks again.
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Karl L wrote:Perhaps I should try using a different USB port for each drive or for full system backups.
The safer solution is to assign a permanent, fixed drive letter to each one.
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Problem has been resolved. I tried the approach of assigning a drive letter to the external drive (chose x:) and the problem did not go away. So I tried GroverH's approach and did an error check on my c: drive. Many errors were repaired including the one that was causing my problem. Thanks to all, my problem is resolved.
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Thanks for the followup, Karl. Sometimes, it takes more than 1 pass to get all the errors, check it again sometime soon (it will run for a few hours) just to make sure you got all errors fixed.
CHKDSK C: /R
Assigning the x as the drive letter is good as a problem preventer for the future backups.
Just use a custom backup scheme to do its own revolving cleanup via the
"store no more than x recent version chains."
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