Any reason I couldn't do a "trial restore" of a backup archive to an Acronis "Secure Zone"?

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In the program documentation concerning validating backup archives I've occasionally come across the suggestion that if you want to be 100% sure that a backup archive is good try a "test restore" to an extra empty hard drive.

Would this be possible using the "Try and Decide" feature? (I'm talking about an OS image backup, not file-based). If I created a secure zone large enough could this act the same as another hard drive?

Tue, 12/29/2009 - 17:28
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I haven't read of anyone doing this. It would be like pushing the True Image software "to the edge" so to speak. Personally I wouldn't even think of doing this. There are enough problems one can run into just doing what the software is supposed to do.
If you cannot do a restore to a spare hard drive, the next best thing is to boot with the Rescue CD and do a validate on the Image.

Wed, 12/30/2009 - 00:54
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OK, I steered clear of that notion...much as I am likely to push the edge of the envelope using software I don't think messing with backups like that is too wise -- so here's what I've done instead: I restored the backup archive to an empty partition to test.

(To clarify things; I am doing this on a dual boot system and the primary drive/OS is NOT the one I backed up or are testing the TIB of, it is a seperate OS on a seperate disk)

SO... how do I boot to my "trial" restore? Is it as simple as changing the boot.ini on my primary drive to point to my "restored" partition?

Sun, 01/03/2010 - 19:29