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To: Sexton O Blake who wrote (75167)	4/29/2011 9:17:49 AM
From: Gottfried	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110581

Blake, re >The only way you will ever know is if you go through the energy to rip the drive out, install another drive and restore from backup and see if it will boot< or install a second drive and restore to that. I did and I restore to that second drive weekly. I boot from it as a test. As all know, a 1TB second drive can be bought for around $60 Before I made images for years, never knowing if they would work.

To: Sexton O Blake who wrote (75167)	4/29/2011 9:18:40 AM
From: PMS Witch	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110581

Something I do, which I've never seen recommended, is I place a copy of my backup software on the same media I use for backup. That way, it's at my fingertips when disaster strikes. When possible, I make the disks holding my backups bootable too. And if it's a PORTABLE operating system, all the better. Then I'm not limited to using one machine. Cheers, PW.

To: Sexton O Blake who wrote (75167)	4/29/2011 9:26:25 AM
From: vireya	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110581

Regardless what I said... I never thot I purposely deleted the drive. What Rap said makes sense to me as I do remember that the only way I cud restore was to let the program wipe the HD first. Then, what happened, was there was a bad sector on the removable and so the backup cud not restore and then nothing was recognized, again, as Rap said. my Acronis is #11 The Acronis tech (4th one) sent me an update of home 2011, a different program, which cud restore; not backup. twas a trial version. After 3 attempts, it did manage to restore. I now have a 2nd ext drive, which I will use to alternate with the 1st ext, which was apparently fixed by ckdsk. However, I am afraid to restore in the future. Will VERIFY eliminate this problem? Something I never did before, btw

To: Sexton O Blake who wrote (75167)	5/1/2011 3:59:14 PM
From: Sexton O Blake	Respond to of 110581

Acronis Redux I finally get it why I dislike 2011 v. the older XP v.10 version. I prefer dealing with sets that fit nicely in a certain time frame Monday-Sunday. With the new version it is not easy to obtain this ideal scenario. 2011: a) You setup with automatic - Full followed by "x" incrementals. That is good, but what if the notebook is OFF or not attached to the network (where I back up to)? No backup is done. Though you can change it to be "next time it is on" etc, that may be a few days. You are not stuck with it bleeding into another day or two as that is how many days it will take to get the right number of incrementals. b) As stated it is cumbersome to setup a FULL / INCREMENTAL dual schedule since the INCREMENTAL name must be set against a FULL name. v10: I was able to set a FULL date on Monday, and INCREMENTALS Tue-Sunday. Now if the FULL is missed with v10, then yes everything fails after that. With 2011, it may take longer to complete the incrementals, but you will eventually get to your FULL. At work I wrote a program to backup the database. Concept of FULL WEEKLY/DAILY INCREMENTALS. Each night I check for the .FUL. If it exists, then it does an incremental, if it doesn't find it, it creates a .FUL that day. Helps when the server has work done on it Monday night or is down a few days. Personally I am not 100% against the 2011 version, but I would have preferred a way to say "HARD FULL on THIS DAY (weekday number, or weekday). As it stands now, when thinking on how I could archive a "week" I realized today that if two backups are missed, the week won't end until Tuesday. Anything automated to re-arrange the directories will never work. If I changed the system to backup ONTO ITSELF, I can almost 100% be assured that a backup will occur daily. But then I need a way to get the data off. That is something I will look at doing - write a python app, ping my server, search for files, move them. Cumbersome but more fool proof. (Obviously I prefer to OFFLOAD to a different drive/PC than have it backup to itself onto the same drive). Anyahoo ....