Backup Reserve Copies
I have ticked the box for "Reserve my Backups" under the default backup options menu and given a location on an externally connected drive as a location for the copy to be stored. This feature doesn't appear to work regardless of whether it is a scheduled or unscheduled backup. I am using the Acronis Secure Zone (fully activated) feature if that has any relevance to the problem.
Where am I going wrong please?
Spikey.
Thanks Bodgy,
How do I give the SZ a drive letter - it doesn't even show up under My Computer?
Cheers,
Disk Management - Right Click My Computer, choose Manage select Disk Management.
Right click ASZ partition ADD drive letter - don't forget to remove drive letter when finished - make sure you don't delete the partition by mistake.
Colin,
Does it work to just assign the SZ a drive letter? Previously, you had to use Linux (a Live Linux CD, for example) or change the partition type to a standard FAT32 type in order to get access to it.
Hi Colin,
When I do this the "change drive letter & paths" is greyed out.
Going back to the original problem of Acronis apparently not making a reserve copy of the backup it has occurred to me that this function is not even included in the task list when I run the backup despite having the checkbox ticked in the tools/options/default backup menu. So presumably the software wouldn't even attempt to make a reserve copy?
Any ideas please?
Mike.
It isn't in the task list, because Acronis have decided to make it a global switch rather than a per task one.
If the <reserver_backup.......> entry isn't there, then cut and paste this one, making sure you change <volume_location uri> to your partition\folder and change the type if you don't want tib files but zip.
However if you open up the actual task tib.tis (xml) file you should see the following entry - this is from my task.
Note that once you've got this working, disabling the option won't stop it, you'll have to either delete the entry in the script file or set it to false.
<description>
My Disk Drives Backup
</description>
<user_command>
<command enabled="false" />
</user_command>
<operations>
<backup check_after="false">
<reserve_backup_copy format="tib" need_reserve_backup_copy="true">
<volume_location uri="Z:\acronis2009\" volume_id="0" />
</reserve_backup_copy>
<archive_options check_network_timeout="true" id="16177313575733800406" network_timeout="5">
<volumes_locations>
Where on the Acronis installation can I find the relevant file that needs modifying please?
Where on the Acronis installation can I find the relevant file that needs modifying please?
If using XP
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Acronis\TrueImageHome\Scripts
If using Vista/W7
C:\Users\All Users\Application Data\Acronis\TrueImageHome\Scripts
The tasks have TI generated ID names, so if you have more than one task you will have to open it to see which script is the one you need.
An example name is B4B6E02D-C6D5-48BE-B8F0-2095454E7E3E.tib.tis, this is an ordinary text XML file so an XML editor or Wordpad would be able to read it. Don't open it in Notepad as all the formatting will be lost, which will make it difficult to read.
Hi Colin,
I don't appear to have this on my computer. However, just like you the reserve copy feature 'kicked in' yesterday without any intervention from me!
Don't ask me why!
Mike.