Two of my .tib files won't copy
Newbie here. Please, a bit of patience as I'm an utter amateur on disc backup/restore.
I have a set of 12 dvd discs that I made back in 2009 with (I'm assuming) True Image Home 2009. I'm finally doing some much-needed PC and software and archive maintenance and I've been burning 5 or these 4.37 GB files (each takes up one dvd) to a BD-R. That's so it takes less space in my zippered cd-case marked "If the house is on fire, grab THIS."
And because, as I've so often heard, disc backup (except for m-disc) are only good for 10-20 years.
BD-R one burned fine - all 5 discs tranferred to my HDD and from there to the burner. But things came to a grinding halt at disc 9. It transferred up to 95% - only had 86 MB left to burn, in fact, and windows time estimate said "over one day" to burn the remaining.
Ok, here are my idiot questions -
- Is there any way to recover that last 5% with some utility? I downloaded TI2015 because I saw it was compatible to recover TI2009 backups, but the file is grayed out when I try to select it within TI. Yes, I looked for my old TI2009 program disc, but it's run off somewhere.
- If I lose disc 9 (assuming it's corrupted and unrecoverable), does that blow the entire 12-disc backup? Disc 11 looks dicey, also.
Looks like that 10-20 year lifespan is a bit optimistic...
Many thanks for your help!


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In reply to Pat, welcome to these User… by truwrikodrorow…

Thanks for your kind reply, Steve. I know you are the ultimate guru in these parts, so I appreciate your input greatly!
To answer your questions, first, each of these dvd's holds a single .tib file of about 4.37 GB. I believe I was backing up the entire hard disk to my pc at the time, so 50-60 GB sounds about right. The backup is dated 2009, and I recall having the True Image program, probably the home version, so that makes sense that it's the 2009 version.
It's makes me rethink the whole process of backups if losing one 86-mb chunk on one disc renders the whole thing useless. There's really no way to recover the individual .tib files, huh?
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Pat, if each DVD is just a part of the greater whole disk backup image split at that 4.37GB size, then losing any part / DVD will break the image.
In all honesty, there seems to be very few users who have used DVD / optical media for their backup medium, that is especially true today when large HDD drives are relatively cheap to buy and have a much longer life expectancy.
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In reply to Pat, if each DVD is just a… by truwrikodrorow…

So true. That's why, today, I have an HDD duplicator/dock on my desktop and a spare HDD I use to make a copy of my RAID array periodically.
But 10 years ago, HDDs were more expensive... I guess I'll have to say sayonara to that old disc backup and hope there wasn't anything irreplaceable in it. God know what Acronis would charge to try to save that disc!
Thanks for trying, Steve.
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