Backup is Corrupted message in PINK
Do I have a bug or do I really have Corrupted Backups? When I complete a backup, the line at the bottom always reads "The Backup was successfully completed etc" and is in Green. However, every time I trigger a new backup (clicking the Backup Now button), the Green line quickly turns to Pink and says Backup is Corrupted. Backup completes and I get another Green line. Should I delete the backup and start all over? Should I ignore the message? Should I find another software? I have the latest version of True Image Home 2011. Screen shot attached.
Thanks, Stan
Does this not qualify as a 'bug?' Can't that be fixed or explained, other than 'ignore?' It does not make me comfortable using the software as it does tell me that the previous backup was corrupted, and that would be bad.
I am using the Version Chain option, but now I see that I cannot restore an individual file with that option. That name does not convey the real purpose of the backup (full image restore only). However names these backups should consider changing the name of Version Chain to Full Image Restore Only so that users can better see what is being done.
What is the best backup option that gives me both the option of a full image restore AND the ability to pull up an individual file that might have been erased from the HD by mistake?
Thanks,
Yes it is a bug, a glaring bug, I would say. Acronis is aware of it.
You can restore an individual file from a Version Chain, but only *from the CD*, not through a restore process started in Windows.
Another issue that I just discovered: Because of the bug above, my backups using the Version Chain, must have thought that it had to do a full backup each time, in that the previous backup, read as corrupted, did not trigger the incremental backup. Therefore, I used up my 1TB external hard drive after a few backups. I backed up about 150 GB, but instead of an incremental backup after the first one, it did full backups each time, so after 5 weeks my HD was full. If it saw the previous backup as 'good,' I suspect that it would have just done an incremental one.
I deleted the backup, did a quick format of the external HD to clear some folders that would not clear with DELETE, and am doing a backup (Custom) with a full and then incremental backups. Can you remind me how I should set the consolidation step and what is a reasonable number of backups (I set it at 2 with full backup after 5 incremental backups, doing the backup only once a week)? Thanks,
The auto-cleaning option that works best is the one where you ask ATI to keep only the X most recent chains.
If you backup once a week, create an incremental creating a new full every 3 incrementals, keeping only the last 2 chains. You will get a full every month. Feel free to deviate from that. Just remember you don't want your last full to be so old that you cannot restore it.