Integrity of Incremental Backup in True Image 2012
I have been backing up my photos for most of this year using incremental backup and carried on as Acronis indicated the backup was valid. But beware!
However, when I needed to recover them all it became apparent that the original full backup had gone awol and was not to be found. So despite the best efforts of Support I have lost all my photos.
This is especially frustrating as I have about 200 GB of actual incremental backup of the relevant drive.
Has anyone got a magic tip to enable me to get at least some of my photos.
Just hoping!
Tim
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I understand what you are saying but my point is that the last incremental backup in the chain which is the only one visible in the Backup & Restore screen is clearly flagged as Valid. Thus, being a user and not a programmer I took that at face value.
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Validate it to make sure.
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Tim,
Sorry for your loss. I have been there :-(
For irreplaceable content (things you cannot buy back even if you had the money), you *have* to have alternate backup strategies and you should avoid using proprietary containers. A simple file copy from time to time to some disk you take to the office or off-site in general is enough for a redundant backup.
My POV is that it doesn't make sense anyway to store already compressed files in an archive like a TIB file. If the TIB file gets corrupted (and it happens as you can see), you lose *all* your content. With ATI, you can use the ZIP file format for file backups. Make sure you can open the ZIP files without ATI. I believe you can't if you encrypt the ZIP with ATI.
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