Recovery of WIN C:/ and WIN-System Partition // how to handle Acronis Backup Log-Files?
Dear all,
following Situation: I have 2 Disks named as
1. System-partition and C:-Drive with the WIN7/64 installation
2. D:-Drive with all Data (also the myDocuments / myPictures / ...)
I have 3 Backup Session in place:
- weekly (Saturday) incremental Hard-Drive-Backup (System-partition and C:-Drive)
- weekly (Sunday) incremental Data-Drive-Backup (D:-Drive)
- daily incremental small data-file-Backup
If I want to Restore The WIN-System (C:/ - and System) for example on a Wednesday with
the Backup from Saturday, I overwrite the Backup-Log-Files from Sunday to Wednesday
and I get in trouble with the sequence of Backupfiles for D:/-Backup and Filebackup.
How can I avoid such trouble?
A) Is it possible to change the standard-Folder for Backup-Logs to D:/ (if yes, how?)
B) Can I Backup the Logfiles before Restoring C:/ and restore them directly after C:/ Restore
(if yes witch files/folders do I need to Backup
C) is there any other Solution?
Best regards Jens
Hi Anna,
Yes, the integrity of backup sets is not correct, I had some trouble with that, the ARCRONIS didn't find the core (full) backup and its sets.
For example: DATA-Backup day1 full, day 2 to 6 incremental. If I restore last SYSTEM-Backup on day 4, in the ACRONIS Data Base only contains the Data backup from day 1 to 4 and auto-starts after reboot a next incremental dada-backup. What is the right backup-set now, day1-4+new one? What about the two old backups from day 5 and 6? ACRONIS find these two backups and show it in the "Backup-summary".
Jens
Hello Jens,
thank you for your reply.
Acronis True Image should handle such situations in the following way:
Let's imagine that we started a daily incremental backup of files and folders "FileBackup" on 12. January using an external disk as destination. Then on 16. January we created a full system disk backup ("FileBackup" has 4 versions at the moment of system backup creation)
and continued our incremental backup chain "FileBackup" till 20. January ("FileBackup" has 9 versions).
Then we restored our system backup. After system restore we get the situation, when backup destination contains 9 versions, but Acronis True Image know only about 4 of them, because backup database is located on C: drive and was restored to the state of 16. January.
"FileBackup" chain will be continued starting from version 5 (which will be created right after system restore), but since in backup destination we already have a backup file named FileBackup_inc_b1_s5_v1, new file will be named FileBackup_inc_b1_s5_v1-2.
All subsequent backups in the chain will follow the same pattern.
Thank you.
Many thanks, Anna!
This is very usefull and an excellent description!
Jens