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Am I safe?

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I have ATIH installed.
The system has only one SSD, and only one partition (C:).
I have taken a full Disc Image backup to a network share.
I have taken a series of Differential backps of the Partition.
I have created a recovery CD.
I have booted from the recovery CD and can see my Disc Image backup, and my Partition backups.
I have NOT tried to recover from these.

My plan is, in the event of a disc crash or corruption, to...
Boot from the recovery CD.
Restore from the Disc Image backup.
Boot the recoverd Disc Image.
Restore from the Differential backup.

The question is... Am I safe?
Can anybody see a flaw in this practice? (apart from NOT actually testing it really works)

Regards
Paul

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That is pretty safe, assuming that recovery works on your setup. You should test that by doing these tests:

- Boot from the recovery media, select your backup and validate it.
- Boot from the recovery media, select your backup and restore a couple of files.

If both those tests work, then you can be much more confident that you'll be able to completely recover the disk.

A tip: every so often, create a new full backup. As every differential relies on the original full backup, it's good to periodically start the chain fresh with a new full backup, and validate that backup image.

tuttle wrote:
A tip: every so often, create a new full backup. As every differential relies on the original full backup, it's good to periodically start the chain fresh with a new full backup, and validate that backup image.

Where do failures typically happen that make validations important? Are bad archives just caused by hardware eventually going bad, or are they corrupted by Acronis software bugs? If I'm able to read every file from the drive right now, there's no reason a .tib file shouldn't be perfect. That should still be the case even if I last made a full backup five years ago and ran 100 differentials since then.

Quatrix,

An archive file contains chksum data to ensure the file has kept its integrity. We have seen simple OS copies corrupt files. While most application, file formats are resilient to minute data degradation (software or hardware originated), this is not the case with TIB archive files.

This thread title still creeps me out each time I see it. It reminds me of Olivier's character in Marathon Man. ;)

Paul Mountford wrote:
The question is... Am I safe?
Can anybody see a flaw in this practice? (apart from NOT actually testing it really works)

There have been numerous postings by users who have repeated your creation of backup but never really tested to confirm whether recovery was possible. Many of these have made frantic postings on the forum about not being able to restore their backup for a variety of reasons.

As Tuttle has suggested, take the time to copy some files to make sure you can at least do that. Of course, your best test would be to get a spare disk and restore your backup to a new disk and put the new disk in your computer so you have a working replacement.