I have several computers on a network at home. All have the hard drive partitioned into 2, one for system and apps the other for data. At intervals I take an image of C: and store it on D:. I also copy the images to an external USB hard drive on machine 3. I use Macrium Reflect to create the images and have been very pleased with it.
I recently had to restore my laptop from the image on machine 3 and found it was corrupt so I checked all of the images. All of the local images except those on 3 were fine but all bar one on the external drive were corrupt, that was one which had only been on for a short time. I looked at the Macrium Forum and saw a mention of Avast anti-virus. That made me realise that the common link was that all the other machines had AVG anti-virus whereas number 3 had Avast. I'd put it on as a trial following comments on this list. I removed Avast and replaced it with AVG. One of the previously corrupt backups on the external drive and the local backup on 3 then showed as valid but all of the others were still corrupt. I can only assume that Avast was somehow corrupting the backup files when it did its scan. I offer this information for the benefit of others. John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/c95046d4e67b42fca5fea1f084630...@wessex1 ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
