Help with NAS HD Backup

I purchased Acronis solely to upgrade my iOmega NAS Hard Drives. I am under the impression that it is an EXT2 partition. Have I wasted my money? I created a bootable USB with Universal Restore Media Builder but everytime I try to make a .tib of the NAS OS partition, I get the following error:
Failed to read data from the disk
Failed to read from sector '830,440' of hard disk '1'. Try to repeat the operation. If the error persists, check the disk using Check Disk Utility and create a backup of the disk.
Direct R/W operation has failed. (0x590001)
Input/Output error (0xFFF1)

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It isn't shared to my knowlege. The drive contains two partitions. The OS partition, and the data partition. I'm only interested in cloning the OS partition so that the NAS can boot from the new HD.
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Once again, this is a guess. I believe that the OS partition would have to be shared, or the windows account that you run ATI from would need read/write privileges for the OS partition.
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I'm not sure if that is the issue but it could be I suppose. I am running ATI from a bootable USB created with Universal Restore Media Builder. I'm not sure how I would change any permissions since it seems to be an Acronis OS based on Linux or Windows PE.
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I missed that you are running the Linux version.
Does the NAS software have any provision for sharing the OS partition?
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No, unfortunately it does not. With ATI running from the USB dick I'm having a difficult time understanding how it could be a permissions issue.
I removed the drive from the NAS and slaved it into my desktop. Then I booted the desktop from the USB stick that I created from ATI.
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I removed the drive from the NAS and slaved it into my desktop. Then I booted the desktop from the USB stick that I created from ATI.
Para 1.3.3 in the user manual states that Ext2 file system is supported, but only for disk/partition backup/restore. It also states "If a file system is not supported or is corrupted, Acronis True Image 2016 can copy data using a sector-by-sector approach."
Para 4.3.5 discusses image creation mode, including sector-by-sector. Perhaps you could give that a try.
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That's exactly what I was trying but get the error in the original post.
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Since Ext2 is supposed to be supported, have you tried a "normal" partition backup...not sector by sector?
Have you considered attempting a clone?
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I haven't tried a normal backup but I tried the clone and received the same error.
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I'm stumped.
I get my NAS in 2 days. I would be interested in your final outcome.
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If I figure it out I'll be sure to post my findings.
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Your error indicates corruption on the source disk. That must be corrected before TI will be of use to you. For a Linux EXT2 partition the FSCK command line tool can be used.
Have a look at the link below for a guide on how to do that.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/37659/the-beginners-guide-to-linux-disk-…
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Enchantech wrote:Your error indicates corruption on the source disk. That must be corrected before TI will be of use to you. For a Linux EXT2 partition the FSCK command line tool can be used.
Have a look at the link below for a guide on how to do that.
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/37659/the-beginners-guide-to-linux-disk-…
The thing is, the disk is not corrupt. It still boots perfect and it's my last disk that has a good copy of the NAS OS. I don't want to risk messing up the disk by running any utilities on it.
I just want to make a copy of the partition exactly the way it is. I don't need ATI to tell me anything is wrong with the source disk.
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