Missing last volume of the back-up archive = not even a partial restore?

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Do I understand correctly that no version of TI/TIH is robust enough to do a partial restore if the last volume is missing or corrupted? If so this seems like a glaring design flaw!

So is there anyway to specify that the final volume *only* contain the crucial information for mounting so that it's small enough to be copied to each disc of a spanned backup to prevent "putting all your eggs in one basket"? At least that would be an acceptable kludge to prevent one bad disc from screwing a backup set due to what seems a moronic flaw of data that can't be accessed due lack of index.

Acronis, what happened in the past 6+ years? Your quality & value seems to have slipped post TI8!

Fri, 01/21/2011 - 08:15
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TI isn't alone in this method. The metadata for the backup isn't known until the entire backup has been created.

Some comments on how I view the backup integrity issue. Others may disagree:

I only use HDs for main backups. Copying a created archive suitably split onto DVDs is a good second or third level backup. Any archive created should be validated - read errors don't show up when the media is read not when it's written no matter what it is. If an existing archive is burned to DVD from a HD, the DVD copy will ideally be validated by TI but as a bare minimum the burning program's "verify after burning" should be used. It only takes a fingerprint! Some people consider optical media very reliable but I'm not one of them.

I am much more concerned over my data files than the OS and apps, I can always restore the OS and apps, it just takes a bit of time. I do not backup my data files with TI or any other program that stuffs them into a proprietary container file. One serious error and the whole archive can be lost. I use SyncBack but there are others such as Karen's Replicator. These programs backup the files in their native format and structure. One bad file means one bad file lost not perhaps everything.

Fri, 01/21/2011 - 17:04