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Can't access my back up drive via windows explorer and Acronis software

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My back up drive is a Drobo 4 Bay, inside I have 4 drives totalling 12 tb. When I used Drobo's PC Backup, I had no issues accessing my files at anytime. Since switching to Acronis True Image 2016, I now can't access my files at all, either via the software, or windows file explorer.

I'm running Windows 10, I can see that my Drobo is attached, it's "B Drive", it's clear is day in file explorer, when I click into it, Acronis has created several files caled Disk Partitions and My Folders, all are sizeable files, so it appears the backups are happening at the scheduled time each day.

So why can't I access my files?? When I click into one it just times out constantly. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Acronis claim to have a chat facility in which you can speak with an engineer, I've yet to visit the site when this chat facility actually works..

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Hello Phil, welcome to this user forum.

I have no direct experience with Drobo NAS drives but a search in the forum shows that other users have been using the same drives successfully with ATIH 2016.

If you are seeing scheduled backup image files (.TIB) on the Drobo drive then it would look as if Acronis is able to access the drive from your backup task.

I am assuming that you are able to connect to and view the drive contents with Windows Explorer in order to have seen the Acronis images are present?  So when you speak about accessing your files, what exactly are you wanting to do here?

In Windows Explorer, if you right-click on one of the .TIB image files, in particular, one for Disks or Partitions, then you should see an option for True Image which in turn has 2 options, for Mount or Validate, which can be used to mount a disks or partition image file as a drive letter in Windows and then explore the contents.

You cannot do this with a Files or Folders backup image as there is no partition or drive structure to 'mount', therefore you would need to use the options in the ATIH 2016 GUI to Recover Files when the backup task that created that image is selected.  This would then allow you to explore the Files and Folders from within the GUI.

Hi Steve,

Thank you so much for taking the time to comment and please accept my apologies for the delayed response. Since I posted, I managed to start a chat session with an engineer, who did a remote session with me.

After 4 hours of troubleshooting, an uninstall/reinstall, we set off another full back up from scratch and this morning once it was finally complete I can access my files with no problems. The engineer suspected some bad sectors within my back up drive. However, upon completion of the first "new" full back up, I ran an error check on the drive and found this was not the case.

Anyway, after this first fresh back up, all appears well. I've set my back ups for incrimental, daily, with a clean up plan in place. Fingers crossed I'm now up and running. If this continues without issues, I may sign up to Acronis Cloud (currently using Carbonite) for my cloud back up solution. Thanks again :-)

Phil

Phil72, several users had recurring issues with Drobo setups and ATI. Use with caution, and make sure you can access your backups with the Acronis recovery CD. Boot the computer on the recscue medium and try to recover a file from the backup.

Additionally, from Windows, run validations from time to time, or, faster, initiate a "recover files" from ATI UI, to continue building confidence you will be able to use your backups when needed.

I guess that the proprietary file and system management of the drobo machines are the reasons here.