Recovery Fail
I have a full disk back image of my PC. Which I am now trying to recover from the latest backup. (SSD failed and RMA'd, bought a new one different brand & size for the time being.) When have needed to recover in the past, have loaded acronis whilst running the OS & recovered disk without any problems, PC reboots and loads acronis screen & recovers.
Using my 2nd PC (same chipset mobo) I managed to recover from the previous by one in the chain (Connected the SSD internally to PC and ran acronis, same process as above and was succesful.) but not the latest.
When attempting to recover from the latest backup using that method, the process just seems to abort, sometimes restarting the PC loads the acronis recovery screen then fails, other times Acronis does not ask to reboot & terminates the process without any error warnings, and goes back to the home screen. I have tried to recover using this method within the original PC, OS running on a msata SSD with the only thing changed is the SSD using the 2nd copyset of backups I get error from Acronis saying the first version of the backup cannot be found, even though acronis validates the backup and passes.
Any suggestions on the next step.


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Steve, thanks for the help.
Using the Acronis bootable Rescue Media on USB, I was able to partially restore the problematic backup, although errors were thrown up during the process, of index corrupted error and acronis restoration failed at the end. The process took around 30 mins and although Win 10 could not see the drive, I was able to use EaseUS partion master (not sure if anything better?) to undelete the data partition and gain access to the data. The drive remains unbootable but I can live with that. :)
Does a program exists that can compare files from restored backups with the intention to merge into a master, from which backups can then me made?
Regarding the v1-2, no errors were reported within win10, is the general practice to just check the logs regularly.
Thanks
Matt
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Matt, glad to hear that you have made some progress with recovering some of the data from the problem backup image.
For the question about comparing files, then there are a number of free synchronisation programs that you could try that may help in this respect. One that I use is SyncFolders that you could try.
With regard to general practice for checking logs, Acronis haven't make this easy in the later versions by removing the option in the GUI but if you set up Notifications, this will send you a 'trimmed' copy of the log by email which is easy to cast a quick eye over. Alternatively, you can use the MVP Log Viewer app (link below).
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