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What happens to Acronis backup in the event of mid operation failure?

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Hi

I have some minor experience with earlier revisions of Acronis True Image (2015-2020).

It is my understanding that apart from a disk clone, Acronis True Image has always adopted to encapsulate its backups within a single compressed disk image file (TIB or TIBX). Offering no direct 1 to 1 backup operation.

Because of the way these disk images are created, does this mean that if a backup were to fail mid operation, it would leave no remnant of a partial backup. And in fact, no file at all??

Any clarification of this would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Paul 

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Paul, welcome to these public User Forums.

I doubt that there is any definitive answer to your question as this will depend on all the other factors that could be involved in any failure during a backup operation.

The minimum that I would expect would be that the destination archive file is left corrupted due to being incomplete and not closed out correctly.

It is possible that there could be no new backup archive file if the failure occurred prior to Acronis attempting to write snapshot data to the destination storage location.

ATI 2020 & later versions that employ .TIBX files also use metadata information & linkages which are likely to be corrupted by a mid-operation failure.

The best advice that I can offer to try to mitigate against such failure events would be to ensure that you have a 3-2-1 backup strategy in place.  By this I mean having at least 3 backups active, stored in at least 2 different storage locations, and having 1 backup stored offline or off-site for protection from natural hazards such as fire, flood, theft etc.