True Image and Backup Sets
Quick and simple (I hope) question:
Does anyone know what the last version of True Image that did not use backup sets?
The reason I ask is that I've discovered that the way I'm doing my backups I am constantly "breaking" the backup set which has caused problems trying to access them later on to restore files.
So my plan is to go back to the last version that didn't use backup sets.
Thanks!
Not sure what you are trying to describe. Maybe you could say more specifically what you are doing and what problem is happening.
Meanwhile -- jsut guessing -- If your problem is the ATI database isn't keeping track properly of your backups -- for wahtever reason, it could be that what you are asking for is a version prior to ATI2009, which would be ATI11 or ATI12. With those versions, you could make a task to backup to a Backup Location (which you predefined in ATI to set limits on the number or size of backups kept). You could add or subtract files but the task would obey the predefined limits.
These older versions won't work on some of the newer hardware.
What I mean by backup sets is all the backup files associated with a specific backup job and yes, True Image does try to track them with a database. Acording to Acronis for these sets to work properly all their files need to be present and that's where I'm having problems. To backup my system I use two USB hard drives labeled "Odd Months" and "Even Months".
The first Saturday of each month I take the apropriate drive based on the month's number, delete all the backup files on it, then do a full backup of my system to it. On each subsequent Saturday, I take that drive and do an incremental backup of my system.
So what is happening is I am breaking the backup sets by alternating the backup media used each month. During backups this doesn't seem to be a problem but during attempts to restore files, True Image behaves erratically while trying to choose the specific backup to use because it can't find all the files in the set.
This was never a problem before sets was introduced so I'm considering going back to a version that didn't use them..
what you are asking for is a version prior to ATI2009, which would be ATI11 or ATI12.
Unless I am mistaken, I believe that True Imate 12 and True Image 2009 are the same version.
Yes, to keep on the way you are going, you'd want pre ATI2009, which means ATI 10 or ATI 11. ATI 12 was called ATI2009; that was the version where Acronis switched the naming style.
Alternatively, you could make two seperate tasks, then when a task runs, it will always find it's disk connected. Have you tried this? At worst you might have to connect both disks to run either task -- I haven't actually tried this with your version -- but it shold be able to keep track with seperate tasks.
Hmmm.... I could do two jobs, one for odd months and one for even months. That might be better than going to an older version.
Before 2009 I had to have multiple jobs anyway, one for full backups and one for incremental backups because back then an incremental required a full backup to work, it wouldn't fall back to building a full backup of none existed like it does in newer versions.
I can probably get away with just connecting one drive at a time but the two jobs will likely have to have slightly different paths, because if I remember correctly, these newer versions won't allow two jobs to have the same path to the backup files.
FWIW, I have every version since 10 and also have 7. I forget the details it was so long ago but I got v7 for free then used it to upgrade to v10 and have been upgrading ever since except for v12/2009, for some reason I skipped that version but found it on Amazon for $10 so I grabbed it just in case I'd need it.