Restore Appears to Complete But Really Doesn't
Restore appears to complete but doesn't actually write any of the files requested to be restored. This is for TI9 running under XP SP3 in an Intel P4 environment with 1gb RAM.
I have a large number of digitized music files that I have created and backed up to DVD using TI9 and archival grade optical media. These are created in sets as I complete digitization work, where the number of DVDs in a set can range from 1 to 5 with 3 being average.
Restoring files from these DVDs has been inconsistent. Some days things work just fine - TI 9 reads the last disk in the set, asks for the first disk in the rest, reads it, etc. finds the correct files and writes them to the specified location. But most of the time the restore process will start, spend a few moments with the last disk in the set, display a "restoring" green bar, and then declare that the operation has been successfully completed. When I look for the restored file(s) I find none either in the location that I specified for the restoration [I rarely restore to the original location], or any place on the 3 HDs in the computer. [I do a file search.] For the record, I have experienced this problem on the SAME set of disks at different times.
I've found that if I open these disks with Windows Explorer - a tedious process that requires mounting each disk in turn and then copying the needed files from the optical disk to my Desktop [Explorer can open .tib files] - I can do a long-winded, time consuming restore. This leads me to believe that the problem may not be in the writer-media environment, but with TI9, though I could well be wrong about that. Might RAM size have some role in this?
To test the possibility the the DVD writer is a problem, I installed a second brand new Samsung writer [slave] to supplement the original Lite-On drive [master]. I clean the optics weekly. As far as I've been able to tell, reading and writing from either one yields the same results - inconsistent. Should this make a difference, the optical media is T-Y DVD+R.
Also, should this have a bearing on my current problem, I should mention that some time ago I had upgraded to TI10, found it to have several serious problems and, after much wrestling, managed to uninstall it and reinstall TI9.
I'm aware that Acronis does not heartily recommend backup up to optical media and I am reworking my backup process to acknowledge that flaw, however to correct this, I do need to be able to retrieve data laid down on the DVDs.
Thanks very much for any guidance that can be offered.
Bill Cole
Thanks very much for the information. Given my current situation and your view of TI and optical disks, looks like it's time to find a backup tool that's better suited to this particular situation. Think I'll give Genie Backup a whirl. Still plan on using TI for disk imaging.
I ran into this same problem...but only when I was running ATI from the ATI bootable CD. Once I ran from ATI installed on my HDD, it would restore files.
Thanks for the info. I'll do a science experiment and see if I can read the opticals using the ATI Bootable environment. This should be interesting.