Questions about Validating backups
My primary backup scheme is to do a Full backup of my entire C: (boot) drive on Sunday and then Incremental backups for the next 6 days of the week. I am still doing .tib backups, not .tibx. Questions:
1. If I ask ATI to validate e.g. the Thursday .tib backup file, it must then also check every incremental-file-and-back-to-the-Sunday-full, correct?
2. Why does Help state this: "We recommend that you validate system partition backups under bootable media. Other backups may be validated in Windows."?
I would like to know why I apparently shouldn't validate my backups, which are of course to another drive, using the Windows application of ATI.


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Thanks Steve, I vaguely recall a time with some very early releases of ATI that there were problems with backups and validation became very important, but in at least my case I think the issues were with computer hardware errors i.e. as if USB ports were not up to being reliable for these very very (relatively) large .tib files. It seems to me I recall too using shortest, most robust USB cables and connecting as directly to a PC motherboard as possible so that there was no chance of noise or etc. in the wiring chain.
Regardless of whether #2 is problematic or not, I used Validate again this morning to assure that my incremental chain had not been broken by my screw-up in the other thread here.
;-)
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