Error occurred while writing the file..??
I've got a strange thing happening when I try and run a backup on this drive for some reason. Hoping somebody can give me a quick tip.
I've got an internal 2TB storage drive that's about half full. I have another internal 2TB drive that I've always used as a backup drive, but I simply mirrored the original storage. I wasn't doing incremental backups, which I didn't like.
I decided to grab True Image 2011 because I had heard good things about it and the built in Windows 7 backup was causing me some horrible lagging problems while it ran...and it seemed to run forever.
I have an external 2TB drive that I formatted and used for testing/demo purposes with True Image. I went through the Disk and Partition Backup wizard to create the backup to this external drive. This worked great, seemed to run pretty quickly, didn't cause me any lagging issues, and I was very pleased.
I'd really like to use the other internal as my backup source, though. As such, I then formatted the internal backup and went through the same steps with this drive. For some reason, though, on this drive I get an error on the original try...
I've been playing with my options at this point and I can get it to move forward, but I'm worried that it's happening in the first place and that I might have missing data in there somewhere.
What's interesting is the when I first start the backup it creates a new file on the backup drive called Workstation_Backup1.tib. When this file reaches exactly 9,170,944 KB it crashes and I get the error above. Happens every time I start a fresh one on this drive.
At that point, if I choose Browse on the error window it seems to want me to select an original .tib file because the OK button is grayed out until I do so. When I do that and say OK, though, I get an error that it can't use that backup because of incompatible types of some sort. I really don't remember the exact message because I didn't screen grab that one, unfortunately.
As of right now I did another attempt and it failed again at the same file size with Workstation_Backup1.tib, but I just chose Retry and now it's working on Workstation_Backup2.tib, which is now up to 44,175,360 KB without any issues and still moving.
So, I'm a little bit confused on this. I've got a successful backup to an external drive without any issues at all (seemingly). I'm following the same steps on the internal drive but it gives me that error...but only on the first attempt and only when it reaches that one exact file size each time.
What's going on here? Do I have data in the Workstation_Backup1.tib that just got continued in the 2nd file? Did it start over entirely with the second file so I could delete the first one?
Any information on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!
Ran chkdsk and started another backup. Seems to have gotten farther than it did before. Thanks for the tip. Should have just tried that before I ever came here. :)