Error recovering files from backup
Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere, but I am trying to recover files from previous backups that I made. I am using ATI 2012 and the backups are on a NAS server with RAID 5 disks. The error message I get is "Specify the location of volume 165". When I hit retry it keeps failing. I do need these files and the original source for them is no longer available.
The backups were taken of the C: drive of my old laptop and that has now departed this life. I do not need to restore the entire drive, just certain files.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
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Mark,
The reference to volume 165 would seem to indicate there are 165 backup files. If yes, try looking at some earlier (lower numbered files) backups. Perhaps you may find some that may be readable.
if the 165 number is close, this would imply that your were creating incremental files and have been bitten by the not knowing the limitations of incremental files--that is the requirement that all newer files must be good in order to restore files from older backups. Many of us prefer the use of differential backups or to make the full backup base much more frequently.
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OK I have switched to differential backups (Version Control) on all the computers that are backing up to the NAS. Hopefully this will resolve the issue around potential failures in incremental backups causing issues with restores.
With regards to restoring files, it seems that I can restore some folders and files albeit with some problems. If restore in batches of only small numbers of files/folders then I stand a greater chance of success. However I am not facing two issues:
I am getting some files restored with strange names such as:
DNRON1LI~Questions_Uni_08.01.2012.doc~
S7VHFA7Q~Uni MSIEM cancellation fees examples 20.12.12.xls~
KJTMPMOP~JBDA.pdf~
In order to read these files I have to change their names to remove the tildas and the strange 8 codes at the front. This requires admin authority as the backup was done on a different machine with a different user name to the machine that I am restoring to. So.....
1. Is there anyway of automatically removing these strange naming conventions for restored files, i.e. the tildas etc?, and
2. Is there a way in which I can automatically change permissions on all files within a folder to allow access rather than having to do it one file at a time?
Thanks
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Mark Fisher wrote:it seems that I can restore some folders and files albeit with some problems. If restore in batches of only small numbers of files/folders then I stand a greater chance of success.
That is not a True Image issue. I think that is an issue with your NAS or your router, as I described earlier. True Image has no problem restoring any number of files/folders, in fact can restore an entire disk in one operation.
Mark Fisher wrote:I am getting some files restored with strange names such as:
DNRON1LI~Questions_Uni_08.01.2012.doc~
S7VHFA7Q~Uni MSIEM cancellation fees examples 20.12.12.xls~
KJTMPMOP~JBDA.pdf~
That looks like a Windows path issue. Probably either a filename or the total pathname exceeded Windows limit, so the tildes are inserted to substitute for the illegally long path. It may be that some filenames or paths were already quite long, but once you added the additional path of the NAS they then exceeded Windows limit.
Mark Fisher wrote:Is there a way in which I can automatically change permissions on all files within a folder to allow access rather than having to do it one file at a time?
Yes. Google for information on "take ownership" and your OS (I'm guessing Windows 7). You can take ownership of an entire directory tree.
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