Backups disappear following restore puzzle.
I have said on many occasions how pleased I have been with Acronis TI 2009 which I use on my 64bit W7 installation. This is still the case as I find the product to be very stable and very reliable, for me at least the best TI product to date. I have however come across one anomaly which I'm sure I have not noticed in the past though I accept I could be wrong.
This anomaly concerns restores (which for me always appear to be successful, touch wood). When I have to do a complete image restore something strange happens. Scenario - I do two backups each weekend, one on a Saturday to one external drive the other the next day Sunday to a slave drive. On the Tuesday I have to do a restore, this completes without a hitch. However, on completion of the restore Acronis immediately starts to initiate a backup image (a quick check shows that all the existing backup images are intact and in place). I cancel the backup as I don't require further backups until the weekend. Once I cancel the backup my two existing backups on the external and slave drives from the Saturday and Sunday prior to the restore have now disappeared but the previous ones before that are still there. What is going on?
Have you checked the task to see if you have the option checked to create a backup when missed?
You did a restore so the system is back in time so it does not know about any newer backups.
Are the backups disappearing from the drive (being deleted) or are they just not shown in TI anymore?
You said that the backup starts immediately after the restore finishes. Are you running the restore from Windows?
Backups are being deleted - have restored from within Windows and from rescue disk and the same thing happens each time.
Have you checked the task to see if you have the option checked to create a backup when missed?
You did a restore so the system is back in time so it does not know about any newer backups.
Yes the box is ticked if missed then perform backup next time computer is started. I know what you are saying about going back in time and I had made the same leap. However, if I restore an image on a Tuesday from an image made two days earlier then how would that effect it as the Sunday backup had not been missed and the time had not yet arrived for next Sundays backup? The other thing of course is that the backups are kept in two different locations and I find the fact that Acronis is somehow going into my external drive and deleting a backup that hasn't been used in any way somewhat spooky. I'm sure this is only a recent phenomenon as I have been using 2009 since launch and one would have thought I might have noticed this behaviour before now.
Are the backups only being deleted due to their names? Are the tasks that run trying to replace the files that get deleted? Then, when you cancel the backup, TI removes them?
Are the backups only being deleted due to their names? Are the tasks that run trying to replace the files that get deleted? Then, when you cancel the backup, TI removes them?
I assume Acronis is trying to run a scheduled backup though can't confirm as I always cancel but can confirm the backups are there before I cancel then get deleted when I cancel the back up task.