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Changing the restore order

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I'm still battling on with B&R evaluation whilst doing some Windows 7 test system builds. The test system was built with two identical disks in dynamic mode:

System reserved, Drive C: (OS), Drive E: (Data)

I've done three backups so far: a full and two incremental. When I restore the the full backup, the restore order is wrong:

Drive E: (Data), System reserved, Drive C: (OS)

But when I restore one of the two incrementals, the order is right:

System reserved, Drive C: (OS), Drive E: (Data)

Question #1: why is the restore order different between the full and the incremental backups?

Question #2: how do you change the restore order of that full backup? When one is restoring to the same hardware where the partitions exist, it's okay as you can pick the target the partition. However, consider a real disaster recovery scenario when the hard disks are being replaced. The partitions won't exist so they will have to be built from scratch. In this case, the partitions will be recovered in the wrong order and I suspect one will end up with an unbootable PC

Question #3: Why is B&R so slow when setting up a restore? It takes 15+ seconds with every click down that form as you pick the archvie (wait), pick the backup set (wait), pick the targets for MBR1, MBR2, system reserved, Drive C and Drive E - each time with guess what? Yes, a 15 second pause. Whatever happened to entire drive/disk restore?

Question #4: Aside from all of this, why does the restore not actually finish cleanly? Just watching it now and it simply says "Stopped". Has it actually finished? See attached screenshot.

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Later... I don't think the task has finished as when I click "Cancel", it says "Do you want to stop?". I've just said "Yes" and I'm now waiting as the PC maybe reboots!

Later still - yes, it rebooted okay so the restore of C: & E: had probably (!) completed. I suspect it's something to do with restores to dynamic disks as a similar test on the PC configure with the same partitions but only with basic disks and the restore works fine.

Rob.

PS. Any how come I can edit my replies on this forum but not the original message? To correct typos...

Rob.

Hello Rob Nicholson,

Thank you very much for your post. I will definitely try to assist you with this issue.

Can you please clarify something for me. Were you using the Acronis bootable media for the restore operation or you did it from Windows? Please note, that Acronis bootable media displays different drive letters, it is possible that you got confused by that. However, I would like to clarify something please. Did you try to restore the full and then the incremental backup in one session? That is, did you reboot the machine for each corresponding restore or you simply restore the full image first and then the incremental image. It would help us to troubleshoot this if you described your steps in detail and if possible provided us with screenshots.

To answer your second question, in relation to the first, there is no way to change the restore order, but you can prepare your new hardware using the Acronis Disk Director Lite utility. This little utility will allow you create partitions on your new hardware prior to restore.

At the moment it is very hard to say why the software is very slow. Which build are you using, you can check it by pressing help and about. I would also assume that you are using the Acronis bootable media created with the program. Where is your image located?

In your specific case the restore operation did not complete properly. After a successful restore an appropriate message should appear, saying - succeeded. It would help us to determine the cause of the issue if you could check the logs of the restore operation please. After the restore stops, please press the navigation tab and then view log.

I would also definitely recommend checking our user guide on page 43 which has a table that shows operations with dynamic volumes.

I am sorry that you are unable to edit your first reply, this is the limitation of our forum engine.

Please let me know if you have additional questions.

Thank you.

Rob,
If you want to edit the original master posting, the edit option is at the top of the post. The edit function is located at the bottom on all but the original posting which is located at the top.

GroverH wrote:

Rob,
If you want to edit the original master posting, the edit option is at the top of the post. The edit function is located at the bottom on all but the original posting which is located at the top.

Ahh thanks for the heads up on this. Not exactly consistent user interface design :-)

Cheers, Rob.