Bootable WinPE Restore over FTP doesn't work
I've been using Acronis for good many years, and with the new set of computers at work, I'm using the Rescue Media WinPE to boot to the new system to restore the TIB image from my ftp server.
The app says it successfully connected to the ftp server, but keeps going in a loop by asking the login credentials over and over again.
My FTP port is opened at 45000 and have necessary ports opened on my server.
Does anyone had similar experience like what I'm having right now?


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I recall that post indicating that in such case copy the backup from the NAS to a drive attached to the PC (internal or USB) and then do the recovery. I understand that the recovery is faster this way.
Ian
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I have not actually tried a recovery from an FTP backup. I have done a Verify and had no trouble, but that was not lately. (I've given up using Acronis FTP for disk and partition backups - just file and folder backups - so I can't easily try a restore right now.)
This is probably a dumb question but did you use the Acronis FTP support to create the backup, or did you use ATI to create a backup on a local drive and then FTP the .tib files using some other FTP client? If you did the latter (which I recommend), you cannot directly use an Acronis recovery medium to do the restore from the server.
By the way, ATI seems to create a new set of FTP connections (both control and data) for each .tib file it uses when reading the FTP backups. If, for some reason, ATI is not saving the credentials (which makes no sense) it would probably prompt you for each of the 2GB .tib files created. For a full drive that would be a lot of prompts.
I think ATI is, in general, a very good product, but I'm afraid it's FTP support has a few warts.
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"I think ATI is, in general, a very good product, but I'm afraid it's FTP support has a few warts."
Agreed - Secure FTP is really a must have which ATI does not have!
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