How can I minimize validation errors?
I am surprised at how often I am getting validation errors in backups when all seems to have gone well. (Windows 8.1).
Is there ANYTHING I can do to make validation errors less probable, for example if I turn off file compression would that help?
I don't understand why this software is not more robust....I am considering dumping this and moving to something else.
Just to harp a little bit further on this validation error issue: I guess I do not understand why Acronis is not AT LEAST as reliable as simply copying files from one disk to another. It certainly does not appear it achieves this level of reliability, as far as I can tell. Disturbing.
Further weirdness: first time I check validation it reports it is corrupt. Then I try it again on the same archive and it works. Explain, please?
This was the error code..
Operation with partition '0-0' was terminated.
Details:
The archive is corrupted (0x70020)
Tag = 0xF5F8CBCF76155663
Most often backups end up being corrupted because users move, delete or rename archive tib files that are part of a backup chain that ATI is tracking.
In many cases, validation fails because some I/O errors during the validation process: could be networking issues, or it could be hardware issues (validation is pretty intense on the memory side).
In some rare cases, a backup can get corrupted because of hard disk issues, or malware, etc. affecting the data integrity of the TIB, like any other file.
We have seen users with reportedly corrupted backups, but the backup can be recovered...