Nonstop-Backup does not start after an interuption of the HDD
Hello,
I took off my backup HDD as I wanted to change between two HDD. That did not work, but that is another problem.
So I connected again the HDD on which ATI 2013 did the nonstop backup all the time. But since then it will not start again. On the ATI main window I can see it is stopped. I can start and it stoppes again - telling the action was successful. There are no mistakes in the log file. I can click at the "recovery" and see all backups until I took of the HDD. Thus ATI has the right link. The HDD is addressed by window 7 as "X" as before.
What can I do?
I would even try to delete the backup-roule and make it new. But it look that than ATI will delete my backups, which is more than stupid. So I did not try that.
What can I do?
Hi,
I mean it did not start the whole day yesterday, even when I clicked on the play button. It did not start at all. Clicking it seams to start for a few seconds and stopps again. And a popup says "action successful" - what is really silly, giving a wrong feeling of savety! Not a single backup has been done sine I moved the HDD.
But very funny: Today it started automatically, working for about one hour. Now everything looks ok.
Of course I restared the computer several times yesterday! Does ATI need a night of sleeping?
It is not really what I expect a backup programm to work like!
I mean: A backup company should know, that you should store a backup outside the computer. Thus changing of HDDs should be possible in an easy an intuitive way. It should be very normal to change HDDs. One should do so at least once a week.
I am very uncertain at the moment, if ATI can do, what I think is the duty of a backup program.
Karsten,
As described by the manual, NSB will stop if it cannot do its automated consolidation (which typically runs during the night). If you are quick to shutdown your computer when unused, you have probably delayed this consolidation. WHen ATI had a chance to catch up, it executed the operation.
I personally don't like NSB very much as a sole backup because it is opaque and not flexible (you cannot control retention of versions, you cannot validate, you cannot move things around, ...). If you use it for computer recovery, I recommend you run a traditional chain of disk and partition backups, making sure that you have included all partitions on your system disk and the active partition. Check Windows disk management to make sure of this. Also make sure you have a working recovery CD, that you have tested: you have booted your computer on it and you have recovered a couple of files from the backup I described.