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Minor irritant with multi-volume backup/validates

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This is just a minor irritant - the process works fine!

I am running a backup to several DVDs with a validation pass. After the last volume has been written, it starts on the validation pass and asks for the final volume to be loaded again - presumably so it can read some sort of index. Very soon after that it asks for volume 1, 2, etc.

Does it really need to have the final volume inserted again? Could it not just read the info whilst already in the drive?

BTW these DVDs are my "safe copy", written in ATI2009 rescue disk mode, and are then stored in a fire safe.

Cheers,

   Roger

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Hello Rogman,

Thank you for using Acronis Products

Thanks for your feedback, the situation you have described with the validation is not an issue. Acronis True Image has to check all CD/DVD discs during validation, the program was designed to work in that way.

I was surprised by the prompt also. My backup took 2 dvd's. The prompt said to insert the "last". I did not know if it meant the one just prior to the one it had just ejected, or the one it has just ejected. Perhaps the message could be clarified to indicate "Backup information has been written to the 2nd of 2 dvd's. Reinsert the 2nd dvd for verification phase." Or similar.

The nuance of meaning for the word "last" can sometimes refer to the previous. Like "How was last week?" Does it refer to the week we are currently in?

A suggestion.

Alan

Given these are critical DVDs I would suggest that you trial a restore from the Rescue disk (if you have already then ignore me :-) .

Whilst validation is a good indication when the time comes it will work if it were me I would try a restoration to a spare drive or if that is not possible at least up to the Proceed prompt.

I recently had the need to grab some normal files (jpg) off a CD that I had stored about 10 years ago to find that I could not read a considerable number per CD. I had the original film negatives so it was not a problem to rescan them but I was surprised at the number of failures.

I did a scan of about 20,000 negatives and slides about 10 years and originally stored them on an internal hard drives and backed them up to CDs (which I stored off site). I recently found that at some time in the past, during a period of transferring to larger drives, I missed about 40 files hence the need to go to the CDs As hard drives got cheaper and bigger I now store 2 copies of the scanned files on drives - one off site - on USB drives.

I myself would not trust CD/DVDs to be my primary backup media. True image is very picky about the integrity of the tib file and if there is one bit wrong the whole file is not readable.
Good point about the "last drive"