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Acronis 11 for XP Pro backup - verification fails
Running XP Pro with current updates with 1 yr old Dell 410.
Acronis v11 will do a complete backup and report it succeeded but when I add the qualifier to verify, it always reports it failed? I'm unsure if I'm getting a good backup when relying on the backup without the verification process. Any advice? Could it be the drive I'm using to back up to that is the problem. It is a USB drive. It is the same drive that I get the backup succeeded message when I use Acronis without the verification. This makes me nervous. I'd thought to buy the Rebit backup software so I'd have two chances to have a backup that would work following a disk failure but just hate to have to purchase another backup program. Mary |
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Acronis 11 for XP Pro backup - verification fails
"MEL" wrote in message ... Running XP Pro with current updates with 1 yr old Dell 410. Acronis v11 will do a complete backup and report it succeeded but when I add the qualifier to verify, it always reports it failed? I'm unsure if I'm getting a good backup when relying on the backup without the verification process. Any advice? ... You might get more response from the Acronis forum, say with this link http://www.wilderssecurity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=65 Or start up TI and get support from the link it gives you. |
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Acronis 11 for XP Pro backup - verification fails
"MEL" wrote in message ... Running XP Pro with current updates with 1 yr old Dell 410. Acronis v11 will do a complete backup and report it succeeded but when I add the qualifier to verify, it always reports it failed? I'm unsure if I'm getting a good backup when relying on the backup without the verification process. Any advice? ... You might get more response from the Acronis forum, say with this link http://www.wilderssecurity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=65 Or start up TI and get support from the link it gives you. |
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Acronis 11 for XP Pro backup - verification fails
"MEL" wrote in message
... Running XP Pro with current updates with 1 yr old Dell 410. Acronis v11 will do a complete backup and report it succeeded but when I add the qualifier to verify, it always reports it failed? I'm unsure if I'm getting a good backup when relying on the backup without the verification process. Any advice? Could it be the drive I'm using to back up to that is the problem. It is a USB drive. It is the same drive that I get the backup succeeded message when I use Acronis without the verification. This makes me nervous. I'd thought to buy the Rebit backup software so I'd have two chances to have a backup that would work following a disk failure but just hate to have to purchase another backup program. Mary Opposite problem here. Both USB and Firewire connected hard drives work fine for imaging and verification. After imaging my windows partition to another partition of either onboard hard drive, verification fails. Believe its an indeterminant timing issue that XP fails to notice. -- Dave CDOs are how we got here. A modified version, new taxes in the future, is how Congress will get us out? |
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Acronis 11 for XP Pro backup - verification fails
"MEL" wrote in message
... Running XP Pro with current updates with 1 yr old Dell 410. Acronis v11 will do a complete backup and report it succeeded but when I add the qualifier to verify, it always reports it failed? I'm unsure if I'm getting a good backup when relying on the backup without the verification process. Any advice? Could it be the drive I'm using to back up to that is the problem. It is a USB drive. It is the same drive that I get the backup succeeded message when I use Acronis without the verification. This makes me nervous. I'd thought to buy the Rebit backup software so I'd have two chances to have a backup that would work following a disk failure but just hate to have to purchase another backup program. Mary Opposite problem here. Both USB and Firewire connected hard drives work fine for imaging and verification. After imaging my windows partition to another partition of either onboard hard drive, verification fails. Believe its an indeterminant timing issue that XP fails to notice. -- Dave CDOs are how we got here. A modified version, new taxes in the future, is how Congress will get us out? |
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Acronis 11 for XP Pro backup - verification fails
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Running XP Pro with current updates with 1 yr old Dell 410. Acronis v11 will do a complete backup and report it succeeded but when I add the qualifier to verify, it always reports it failed? I'm unsure if I'm getting a good backup when relying on the backup without the verification process. Any advice? Could it be the drive I'm using to back up to that is the problem. It is a USB drive. It is the same drive that I get the backup succeeded message when I use Acronis without the verification. This makes me nervous. I'd thought to buy the Rebit backup software so I'd have two chances to have a backup that would work following a disk failure but just hate to have to purchase another backup program. Mary I've had two clients recently with the same problem so perhaps this will help. In both cases it turned out they had turned off VSS (Volume Shadow Services). The files would seem to backup OK but fail on verification: That's because VSS was not running and the "in use" system files were being skipped. Check the log that's created with the backup; I'm sure Acronis must be able to create logs of backups. In the log, there will be files named that were "skipped" or "ignored" and the reason should also be given. If the reason is VSS, then it's because those services aren't starting. It's normally ON by default, but sometimes malware can turn it off, or even well meaning people trying to trim out unnecessary services and they mistakenly disable VSS. You might also watch Acronis as you set up for a backup; any references to using VSS or in-use files or use shadow copy, things like that, should be enabled. Since I dont' use Acronis I can't tell you specifically what to watch for or if there is even anything like that to check on. Since it sounds like this problem is repeatable, it's quite likely something at least similar to the above and not hardware related or disk related. Check them out and post back; someone should be able to provide further help. Your backups, since they fail verification, are not reliable. They might work for restoring a file or a folder or two, but a full restoration or re-imaging would likely fail. HTH, Twayne |
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Acronis 11 for XP Pro backup - verification fails
MEL wrote:
Running XP Pro with current updates with 1 yr old Dell 410. Acronis v11 will do a complete backup and report it succeeded but when I add the qualifier to verify, it always reports it failed? I'm unsure if I'm getting a good backup when relying on the backup without the verification process. Any advice? Could it be the drive I'm using to back up to that is the problem. It is a USB drive. It is the same drive that I get the backup succeeded message when I use Acronis without the verification. This makes me nervous. I'd thought to buy the Rebit backup software so I'd have two chances to have a backup that would work following a disk failure but just hate to have to purchase another backup program. Mary I've had two clients recently with the same problem so perhaps this will help. In both cases it turned out they had turned off VSS (Volume Shadow Services). The files would seem to backup OK but fail on verification: That's because VSS was not running and the "in use" system files were being skipped. Check the log that's created with the backup; I'm sure Acronis must be able to create logs of backups. In the log, there will be files named that were "skipped" or "ignored" and the reason should also be given. If the reason is VSS, then it's because those services aren't starting. It's normally ON by default, but sometimes malware can turn it off, or even well meaning people trying to trim out unnecessary services and they mistakenly disable VSS. You might also watch Acronis as you set up for a backup; any references to using VSS or in-use files or use shadow copy, things like that, should be enabled. Since I dont' use Acronis I can't tell you specifically what to watch for or if there is even anything like that to check on. Since it sounds like this problem is repeatable, it's quite likely something at least similar to the above and not hardware related or disk related. Check them out and post back; someone should be able to provide further help. Your backups, since they fail verification, are not reliable. They might work for restoring a file or a folder or two, but a full restoration or re-imaging would likely fail. HTH, Twayne |
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