recover an old ext4 backup?
I found an old .tib i created in 2012, probably using true image home 2012 or whatever was current then.
I have tried recovering this disk image to another hard drive but it always fails with about 10 minutes left.
The image is of an ext4 disk and is about 1TB in size.
I have a current Acronis True Image 2016 and I'm trying to recover the disk using bootable media.
Should I be using another product for ext4 disk?
thanks,
Patrick


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Steve,
Thanks for the reply! :)
I downloaded my Acronis 2012 .iso from my account, burned to CD and booted my laptop to the disk.
The source .tib backup file is on an external USB drive, I'm trying to restore to a 1.5TB HDD in a usb sled.
The recover operation ran for about 10 hours, progress bar got almost to the end and then it bombed saying 'recovery failed'.
I'm going to boot to Knoppix to see if perhaps the target drive did get formatted to ext4 and maybe some data is there.
If there is nothing, should I format it and check for bad sectors?
Thanks,
Patrick
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Patrick,
Please see KB document: 30775: Acronis True Image Home: Sector-By-Sector Restore which may help with trying to get this recovery to finish.
In the ATIH 2012 User Guide: Recovering partitions and disks it has the following line, though there are no details given as to what these options might be, but got to be worth checking?
Disk recovery options - click to set up additional parameters for the disk recovery process.
Look to see if these offer anything regarding handling errors or bad sectors etc?
(I don't have a system with ATIH 2012 installed so can't look at this directly).
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Hi Steve,
Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately there is nothing in options using my Acronis 2012 boot disk regarding handling errors or bad sectors.
I'm trying to recover the whole disk again using the KB document you posted, although I'm pretty sure these are the exact same options I used last time it failed. This will probably take all night so I'll report back tomorrow.
Thanks again for your help!
Patrick
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