How check integrity of backup file
Dear Forum users,
I've just upgraded from 2016 to 2017 and decided to do a new 'system' backup. Acronis reports the operation as being successful but the resulting backup file is much smaller than I expected (and considerably smaller than the file produced via 2016). I can't see any option listed re compression. Is there a way I can check the integrity of the backup file?
Thanks for any ideas,
Richard
Hello Richard,
Although we are constantly working on improving both the speed of the backup creation and the resulting backup size, in your case it looks like different exclusions lists were used, or different backup methods (Acronis snapshot, Microsoft VSS), or maybe even backup source selection changed.
Enchantech's recommendations are more practical, and they will allow you to verify backup's integrity, but if you want more "theoretical" answer, then you should open backup context menu in the program's interface and choose validation. This process will re-calculate the checksums of backed up blocks and compare them with their values stored in the backup.
Regards,
Slava
Enchantech wrote:You can Mount the backup file in Windows File Explorer which will open the backup file like a drive so that you can view the contents. Once mounted, select a file and copy that file to another location on disk. If that all works the backup file should be recoverable.
To mount the backup file navigate to the file, right click it and select mount. (you can also double click on the file).
To copy a file to another location, right click on the file and select copy.
Is there a way to automate this process?
Horacio, welcome to these public User Forums.
I am not aware of a method of automating the mounting of .tib files in Explorer, but once you have manually mounted it to a drive letter, then any copying of files could be automated using a batch script, or else you could use a sync tool to compare between the mounted drive and the original source drive data etc.