> Backup the block device. Acronis knows NTFS very well. And will do the > incremental/differential backup at the block level, just fine.
How do you do that? In my TrueImage Home 2010, I just have checkmarks next to the partitions I want to backup. I have selected the whole disk (all partitions.) There is a checkbox for "backup sector by sector" but I didn't check this, because it would backup all the unused space in the disk, as well as the files. Is that what you're talking about? > This is why I said "put the files on a separate filesystem." I think you're saying ... Create a new partition. Put the sparse files into that partition. Backup that partition using sector-by-sector. I must admit, I have not tried this. > To restore, you can mount the .tib as a virtual drive and copy back. Unfortunately, when you mount the .tib image, the only tool available for you to copy a file out of there is Windows Explorer ... And unfortunately, WE doesn't know how to copy a sparse file. Yes you can restore a file from the mounted TIB file, but it will not be sparse anymore after it comes out. Ask me how I know. :-( I did submit that as a request with Acronis support, but they are useless. Person after person after person couldn't understand what I was talking about, didn't get the word "sparse." _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
