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Hi,

Just gone to restore our backups, and two of the newer backs are reporting the following dialog.

Using Acronis TrueImage Home Version 10.0 (build 4,942)

What can I do?

Thanks...

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Oh .. this happens on two files, one is 180Gb, the other 150Gb .. I need this data .. hope there is some way of getting data out .. "Compute with confidence!" :-)

Further info:

I've got three .tib backups. One on a SATA drive (180Gb file), a copy of that on a USB (180Gb file), and an older backup on another USB drive (150Gb file).

The SATA copy (and USB copy) both fail via the Acronis Recovery Console on the PC where they were backed up from.

Plugged both USB drives into a laptop with Acronis 10.0 (4,942) installed and get the same error.

Hi:
I had TI-10 and had images on an external hard drive. On trying to do restores I couldn't get TI to see the external drive, even though it recorded images on that drive.

I downloaded the free trial version of TI-2009 on a spare computer, installed it, made a TI boot CD, took that CD to my main computer, booted it up and it immediately saw, and was able to deal with, my TI-10 images.

I then bought TI 2009 from NewEgg for $15. It worked and I thought I got a good deal but in about a month TI-2010 became available. I was annoyed to have an instantly old version until I started reading all the problems with 2010, now I'm happy with 2009.

Fungus

Copied USB file to LapTop, and tried restore .. same error.

Tried Validate .. same error...

Surely there must be some way to get some data out of the 150Gb file?

Ok .. got success, but not without it's battles.

The file became "ok" with Acronis True Image 2010.

The irony of this is that upgraded from TI 7 to TI 10 (not 2010) because TI 7 wouldn't open my file when I needed to restore last time. Now it's the same story .. I need to upgrade to 2010 because version 10.0 won't restore it's own file.

It wasn't all smooth sailing with 2010 either .. on the Laptop, initially it complained that "Volume 1" of a the one volume backup was missing, and if I used the right-click Recover, it complained that "c:\...\MyBackup.tib\{1233-2223...guid}" could not be found.

Finally found that special sequence of clicks that successfully opened the archive.

So ... created a "recovery boot disk" and went to the broken PC & booted. When I selected the archive, and chose the right click "Recover" & every other recover option, it did zip. Nothing. Nadda. There was no way it wanted to open the file .. either from USB or the 2nd HDD.

Ended up installing Vista on a new HDD, then installed Acronis 2010, as only the full version seemed to want to open the archive.

All was going well (archive opened) until I hit the "select destination"..where it appeared to lock up for about 10 minutes. Patience is a virtue. Finally it reported that "Hard Disk 4 is locked by another process" (I'm guessing which is itself, as this was a fresh install of Vista & TI the only thing running). Clicked ignore, and it then presented my hard drives so I could select the destination for the bare metal restore.

So here I sit, with the restore 50% through & time to write a detailed post of what happened.

Whilst I really enjoy the "image" restore capability, this is the second time Acronis TI has left me stranded in my time of need.

A search of many sites/websites reveals that even if you have a 180Gb .tib, there doesn't seem to be a way to get a single byte out of it if Acronis declares its "corrupt". Food for thought there.

Is there a way to get partial data out of a "corrupt" .tib? Is it reporting old archives as "corrupt", rather than "incompatible - please upgrade"?

Thanks

In all my time lurking I have never heard anyone get anything out a corrupt tib.

Some people have replaced bad memory or other hardware or copied a tib file to internal drives or tried other version of TI and then been able to read and restore but if it is corrupt for whatever reason you will not get anything out

If you read the GroverH sticky will see people (including me) are wary of stuffing critical data in a proprietary container that is unreadable should 1 bit go bad.

I leave my critical data in their native format and use Karen' Replicator to back them up to an external drives. There is a chance 1 bit in a file out of 22,000 may go bad but I will not loose the other 21,999.

I use TI to backup my system drive which has my OS and programmes on it so I can restore it quickly with out reinstalling. Works great

However if push comes to shove - corrupt tib file prevents restore- I can reinstall OS and programmes

You make good points. I got slack, and on a recent PC upgrade, my offsite backups stalled. :-/

I checked out Karens Replicator on your recommendation & it looks good.

There's another nifty tool to use as an addition to True Image bare metal restores.

If you haven't already, may I recommend you have a squiz at Cobian Backup, which I've been using for a few years now. It's a 100% free tool, well written, robust & feature packed.

http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm

Supports all that Karen's does plus plenty more, including FTP storage, multiple destinations, option of zip/7z, and encryption.

I will have a good look at Cobian

On first glance it looks more than I need

I have no need to change to change from Karen's R as it does the job I want pretty efficiently now I have tasks all organised

Good to see there is another option though

Its a pity that people are continuing to lose data by only relying on ATI for critical data (especially photographs) backup