Computer has advanced its date by one month - scheduled TI backups inoperative
Hello
On or before 4 March my computer &/or Windows 8.1 unbeknown to me reset the computer's clock one month into the future. (Actually I think 4 March must have been the date when I corrected the error - it might actually have occurred before then).
How such a thing can occur escapes me - I should have thought it was impossible. But anyway, once I became aware of it I lost no time correcting it. Ever since, my backup programs (TI for system backups and Altaro for data) have gone haywire. Both persist in seeing 4 April as the day's date - EVERY day!
Can anybody please advise me as to how I might go about putting TI straight? (meanwhile I've deactivated scheduled backups and therefore become increasingly vulnerable with every passing day).
EDIT:- REPORT.TXT ATTACHED
If you know the key to press to enter the BIOS/UEFI then reboot and hit that key or do whatever is required for your machine to entier the BIOS/UEFI, then hunt thorugh the screens for TIME and DATE. You should be able to set them. This is the date Time kept by the machine when it is off.
Thanks for both replies. I can't think why I didn't check the BIOS before.
However, having now done so it turns out not to be the cause of the problem: It's already showing the correct date.
When I first noticed the error I corrected it in Windows (not via the BIOS). Presumably *IF* the BIOS had advanced itself by one month too - which I shall now never know - correcting the Windows date-setting also corrected the date in the BIOS. (Or perhaps the BIOS setting was never affected...?)
So I remain at a loss as to how best to set TI straight. It still thinks that the last scheduled backup it made was on 4 April. As a result my series of backups (which are 'Differential') makes a sudden leap from 26 Feb to "4 April" and the size grows from around 4.5 GB to over 19 GB (which is larger than the initial full backup!). I imagine this is now corrupted.
Have I any alternative to starting again with a new full backup and deleting the whole of the existing series?
You could use a free attribute changer to alter the file date/time stamp (e.g., http://www.petges.lu/home/) but I don't think that will help becuse ATI keeps track with a n internal (to the program) database. So I don't think you can "fix" the existing backups. Some things you can try in the order I'd try them:
1) click on restore and for any backup that ati says it can't find tell it to ignore that backup. This might force the database to update.
2) move your backups to another location, delete the old task ancd start over. Or keep the old task and location and don't use the old task, crate new one, when the old backups are suitable old, delete the old task along with the associated backups.
In the business version of Acronis Backup there is a tool for cleaning up obsolete or out of limit tib files, which automatically updates the database. But even that wouldn't help you here if you had that feature-rich version of backup.