[RESOLVED] incremental backup recovery confusion
I just tried to recover a partition backup with 6 incremental files and received error 70020. The log indicates archive is corrupt but doesn't indicate which incremental file contains the corruption. I just ran the validator against the tib files and no errors reported. The backup contains multiple partitions but I only need the primary OS boot partition.
Is the correct method to restore a backup configured as incremental to restore all files by selecting the last one or am I supposed to restore the full backup and then do each incremental one by one?
Thanks for any help here.
Michael
Issue resolved here.
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Thanks for your reply Pat. I restored the C partition and had to choose D: as the C: drive letter was not displayed, Acronis said C: -> D: so I don't know if now the drive letter has changed. I rebooted and now have "Operations are in progress. Please wait." displayed and this has been running for several hours. The drive light blinks so the system is doing something but I have no idea what.
Any ideas what these operations are? I don't think Windows Update would have had time to download an update but its a possibility.
Thanks!
Michael
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I finally just did a cold boot. Now CHKDSK and F8 to safe mode don't work. Something is not right after the restore. I'll create another post for this.
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Michael,
Don't worry about drive letters. The operations in progress message is from Acronis, most likely. It could be a validation or a backup on startup?
Remember Michael, that the CD doesnt show you the same drive letter as Windows. I am a bit worried when you say
I restored the C partition and had to choose D: as the C: drive letter was not displayed, Acronis said C: -> D: so I don't know if now the drive letter has changed
You have to look at the drive label (eg "System" or "OS"), not the drive letter (eg C:)
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Thanks Pat. I meant I restored the OS partition so that worked out. I cold booted after Operation in progress for about 4 hours. This should be optional, that was quite the waste of time.
Now I can't run CHKDSK or F8 to Safe Mode menu, I posted about this problem in a separate thread. I think it has to do with a partition GUID being changed but am not sure how to repair it. I consider these two features crucial to ongoing use of Windows, given it's propensity to get NTFS errors etc.
Thanks for your help!
Michael
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This issue is now closed. I figured out how to create all partitions manually with the correct specs and restored successfully. F8 to Safe Mode now works. Chkdsk still doesn't run when scheduled for reboot but I can run it from command prompt in the Repair Options off the Safe Mode menu. Not ideal but I have to get on with my life. Thanks for everyone's help on this!
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