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Recover a RAID 0 Acronis image

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Hi,

I am currently trying to recover files from an Acronis image file using the full version of Aronis True Image Home 2012.

The source for the original backup was a Sony VIAO laptop that had 2x SSD drives in RAID 0 format.

I am trying to recover the files onto my working laptop to copy some original finance MYO files onto an external USB drive.

I have tried using the recover feature in Acronis however when the drives are recovered and mounted windows asks that the partitions be formatted before use. I don’t get any chance to view and recover any of the files within the partitions.

I have also tried to convert the .TIB file to a VHD file to see if I could boot it using Virtual PC however that did not work also.

Any ideas or solutions would be highly appreciated.

Happy to share further details if necessary.

Thanks,

Chris

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Just reading online on the Acronis site and wondering if the Acronis Disk Director 11 will help solve my issue, or the plus pack add on?

Chris, I too have a Vaio with 2x SSD drives in RAID 0 format, so I'm interested to see what response you get your question and if there is anything i need be concerned about or prepare for in the event of having restore from the TI2012 backup.
Are you able to "mount" your backup image and recover the files you need that way?

Hi Louis, yes its a concern for me as I have several customers who own multiple Sony VAIO laptops with this default configuration.

I just used the standard backup process to back up their laptops using the Acronis bootable CD.

I tried right clicking the .TIB file in Windows 7 64Bit and mounting the drives however as posted above Windows requests the drives to be formatted when the partition are recovered into Windows and I dont get any chance to view or copy files from them.

I can see some files from these partitions using R-Tools software however when I try to recover them they dont sucessfully copy across.

Does the backup show the backed up RAID 0 drive as a single drive or as two separate drives? It should be seen as a single drive. Can you post a screenshot of what TI shows?

Does the backup validate successfully?

Hi Mudcrab,

The backup shows 3x drives/partitions in total (1x hidden and 2x NTFS).

I have attached screen shots showing this in TI, I ran the validation process and it was successful.

The image .TIB file that I am trying to restore files from is a single 34GB Acronis file generated from the last backup.

Hope this helps.

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If you boot from the Acronis Recovery CD, you should be able to recover the selected files from the archives.

Hi Pat,

I tried loading the bootable Arconis CD and recovering the files from the archive however when I select the drives they don't contain any files. All drives a listed however when I select them all to recover to my local HDD it recovers 0 files.

This cant be true as I can see the files using R-Studio but cant successfully recover them from this program.

I know the files are there, I am still wondering why Acronis can't see them.

Is there another bootable software I am not aware of?

I am using the Acronis True Image Home 2012 bootable CD.

Was the backup image created using the TI CD?

Can you post a screenshot of what TI shows when the laptop is booted to the TI CD?

Besides the RAID 0 drives, what other drives were connected when the backup was created? The screenshot shows the drive as Disk 2, which means there was at least one other drive detected.

Do you remember if TI reported a blank/empty drive in the listing? What I am wondering is if the RAID was seen incorrectly as two drives. You backed up the drive that displayed the partitions. The other drive would be seen as empty (no partitions). If this is what happened, the backup is no good. While you may be able to see some small files that fit in the "splits" you won't be able to do any type of successful restoring.

The partition was not detected with a file system (note the FS: None reported by TI). This is why Windows asks to format it when it's mounted.

How much data was on the RAID drive (how many GB's)?

 Hello all,

Chris,

We are unable to reproduce the issue on  our Sony Vaio in our test lab. Is the issue still reproducible?

Thank you.