Is Non Stop Backup a disc image? ATI Home 2011
Hi Friends,
I've recently installed ATI Home 2011 and done my first backups. And I've been reading through all the help files and some KB articles on the website, and trying to learn as much as I can about it. But I'm a little confused about a couple of things.
I want to be able to retrieve, e.g. a drawing I made using a graphics program, if it becomes corrupted or not usable; or say a text document like a letter or article, or even just a photo. And I also want a disc image, in case of a hard drive failure, so I can restore the whole system. So I set up the Non-Stop Backup, thinking it was the file type of backup, and I also set up the Disc Backup so I could have the disc image (I set it to back up once daily).
But as I was reading some of the documentation on Non-Stop Backup, it says that the Non-Stop Backup is both the file/folder type AND the disc image type. (http://kb.acronis.com/content/13534) Is that correct?
So I can get rid of the Disc Backup, without compromising the protection that I want. Right?
Thank you very much :-)
Thanks Pat L!
Hhm, I don't remember seeing a choice when I set up the NSB for disc (partition) or file. But I can look at My Backups and Edit NSB Settings to find out how I set it up? So it's either disc image or file backup, not and. Why is the NSB less flexible? I read the things you listed that it cannot do, but I'm just curious why. Is it because of being incremental?
You said: "If I were you, I would use a regular disk and partition backup for my system disk and a file backup for anything that is not on my system disk." (Sorry, I don't see quote tags?)
So if I just need to replace a single corrupted document, for example, I can do that with the disc/partition image backup?
With the disc image backup, do I need to look for hidden partitions, like you described for NSB? Would I necessarily know it if I had a hidden partition? I just used the computer as I bought it. I didn't set up any special paritions. Although I did read about the Acronis Security Zone (or something like that) where apparently you can set up a new partition on the local disc, and use that for backups. So I might do that after I read more about it, because I don't clearly understand it yet. But that hasn't happened yet, and I haven't made any partitions. But could they have been created before I bought the computer (I bought it brand new -- Dell Studio 1558, Windows 7 Home, 64-bit)?
Thanks again :-)
Thanks Pat L!Hhm, I don't remember seeing a choice when I set up the NSB for disc (partition) or file. But I can look at My Backups and Edit NSB Settings to find out how I set it up? So it's either disc image or file backup, not and. Why is the NSB less flexible? I read the things you listed that it cannot do, but I'm just curious why. Is it because of being incremental?
When you set it up you can switch between partition mode or file mode. Once it is set up, you cannot change.
You said: "If I were you, I would use a regular disk and partition backup for my system disk and a file backup for anything that is not on my system disk." (Sorry, I don't see quote tags?)
So if I just need to replace a single corrupted document, for example, I can do that with the disc/partition image backup?
Yes. You can restore a single file from a disk and partition backup. You have 4 ways of doing this:
- double click the tib file, and copy/past the file out of the backup,
- mount the TIB file as a new disk, copy/paste using Windows explorer,
- recover the file from the ATI interface "explore/recover"
- boot on the CD and recover a file
With the disc image backup, do I need to look for hidden partitions, like you described for NSB? Would I necessarily know it if I had a hidden partition? I just used the computer as I bought it. I didn't set up any special paritions.
Right click on the computer icon on your desktop, choose manage, storage, disk management to see what is really on your disk(s).
Although I did read about the Acronis Security Zone (or something like that) where apparently you can set up a new partition on the local disc, and use that for backups. So I might do that after I read more about it, because I don't clearly understand it yet. But that hasn't happened yet, and I haven't made any partitions. But could they have been created before I bought the computer (I bought it brand new -- Dell Studio 1558, Windows 7 Home, 64-bit)?
An Acronis Secure Zone is useful when you have a laptop, and it is easy to create for the end user. Ideally, you don't want to store your backups on the disk that you protect: if it dies, you have no backups! Using an ASZ on another disk is overkill in terms of backup security, and create issues because it is a proprietary Acronis-reserved partition. You'd better put your backups on a USB disk.
Ok, I will stick with disc image backup then, and get rid of the NSB.
Thank you so much, Pat L!