Acronis bad archive

[NoelS]

Help. I was putting a backup on my primary drive. I tested my Acronis True Image 10 to make sure it was working properly before I formatted my C drive before putting my OS back on it. It looked OK. Then I formatted my C: drive and Acronis came up with a message, "This is not an Acronis archive" to my primary Acronis backup segment. Whoa.... I've been using Acronis for 2 or 3 years ad telling everyone else to use it, now THIS!

Is there any way I get get my segment back? I don't think it's corrupted, just not recognized. I used a trial version of Acronis 11 to see what I could do, and it said "You could mount the bad segment and see if it yields data" or words to that effect. But no instructions on how to do that.

Have you ever run into this problem? Is there a fix for it?

Thanks for any help, Noel

 

[Blazer]

is the "backup file" located internally? OR on a external drive?

 

[0roo0roo]

ugh, i guess too bad acronis doesn't have repair tools
atleast that i know of.
if ur paranoid use quickpar
http://www.quickpar.org.uk/
easy parity information to repair broken/missing files.
sometimes seen in file sharing. course this only helps if you make the par files before corruption.
so for next time.

 

[NoelS]

It's an external file, but not even Acronis could help me - their support facility is in RUSSIA and my ISP blocked them

It's just a bad archive, but it was only 2 days old! So why did it go bad? I didn't understand THAT... It's gone now, I wiped it out. I used an Acronis backup file form my AMD machine and put it on my Intel machine and followed up with a repair install. It's running like a champ now!!

I'm really upset about Acronis - I really thought they had it together. I'll use double back ups from now on...

OrooOroo, thanks for the quickpar info. I'll check it out.

thanks for the help, Noel

 

[Blazer]

i have used acronis ti for some time now, for windows xp the version 9 & 10 work well, however i have had problems with external HD backups using usb connections, over a home network to another computer is my method now.

have read there are several problems with ti 11 but if you registered your product you could use your key on an earlier version as well.

 

[NoelS]

blazer,

Thanks for the info. I do use an eSATA external and don't have any trouble accessing TI through eSATA, just that it seems to somehow corrupt images from time to time. I have several other images since I do separate images of each partition, and the others are all good. I've already deleted that bad archive, but should have moved it to my intenal HDD to see if it would have acted differently...

I'll try it on internal HDD and access it through my network, see how that works.

I guess I need to verify each image after I make it so I can depend on it. I also have Ghost, but had more problems with it...

I have a trial version of TI 11, may buy it for their special - $24.95 - but I'll try my key on it first...

Thanks, Noel

 

[capeconsultant]

A similiar thing happened to me. What I did was recreate the boot CD from the version that created the archive.

I must have been messing aorund with different versions. Luckily, I was able to boot from a fresh CD from Version 10, or whatever the version was.

Luckily, it worked.

I use a USB external drive.

Dave

 

[NoelS]

Originally posted by: capeconsultant
A similiar thing happened to me. What I did was recreate the boot CD from the version that created the archive.

I must have been messing aorund with different versions. Luckily, I was able to boot from a fresh CD from Version 10, or whatever the version was.

Luckily, it worked.

I use a USB external drive.

Dave

Dave, Good info... I had tried 3 versions, 9, 10 and 11, so my archive must have been toasted. Problem is I had just made it the day before. I think I found that if you have an older archive and use the same name (with a modifier, maybe) then Acronis doesn't always do a full archive like you request it to do... So now I make sure I have a completely different name for each new archive I make, and then I do a Verify on it to make sure it's good.

I'm thinking about putting an extra SATA HDD in my machines and do my backups on both the external and the internal. Maybe that's overkill, eh? Maybe just doing the verify should be enough...

Noel

 

[NoelS]

Sorry, double post. Noel