Mixed in: Sorry for the size.
Note: I cut my (other) first message in half and only sent the first half.
On second thought, I just this message down and am only sending the first 15%.
I don't want to be the cause of anything bad from a misunderstanding or poor
choice
of words... (I had that problem today with the book I was getting my car
instructions from.
They kept referring me to other chapters of the book for instructions that did
NOT appear
in those sections...
From: "Phil Pluta"
>Next you said "ALL file parts from any full back-up PLUS any added incremental
>pieces MUST be
>"on-line" at once, AND in the SAME directory IF you want to "browse", mount
>them,
>or (check their integrity?)".
> From this answer, I interpret this to mean that when doing a 100% Restore
>you MUST first Restore the Complete file, NEXT you MUST Restore the first
>Incremental (i.e. the file
>with "2" added to file name), then you MUST Restore the second Incremental
>(with a 3 added), continuing
>until the last made Incremental is Restored. Rick, this is really important,
>because isn't the conventional
>meaning of an Incremental that the Incremental is EVERYTHING changed since the
>Complete archive?
>For a full Restore from a disaster you would only need to Restore the Complete
>and the LAST Incremental.
>The Acronis Help implies, but does not explicitly state, that you should
>Restore all the Incrementals. No
>where does it specify an order for the restoration, but I guess that is
>assumed to be understood.
I don't know how you got that idea from what I said...
Actually, I guess I threw you a curve ball since I was not even talking about a
RESTORE at that point.
I only listed "browse", "mount" or "check integrity"...
What I had tried to say was that ALL the file sets (both full set and
incremental sets) need to be
available. That means "on-line", and in the same directory.
>Based on your comments about the Secure Zone, I decided to just "see what
>happens"
>and put in the Acronis bootable CD (that I made using their software; the
>original Acronis
>installation CD is not bootable). It booted the PC to a LINUX screen....Rick,
>you were
>correct in thinking they use LINUX).
Unless they changed something in the new version, I would consider that "odd".
They never let you see ANYTHING in the two older versions (6&7) that let
you "see" (or know) you were in Linux...
The following is "generally" based on storing the files on a HD,
I have a way to "handle" the problem with Incremental. I get "rid of " the old
ones.
SINCE everything needs to be in the SAME directory, MOVE ALL the incremental
files to a different directory, and use the remaining FULL backup set as a
basis for a
new incremental... Putting incremental on incremental on incremental is like
layering
patch over patch over patch...
After some point, it is better to just make a new FULL back-up in an empty
directory...
(Better have lots of space available for most of the above...)
You can expand the principles to DVDs IF the proper "files sets" are available
on DVDs.
BTW: I ALWAYS split the original archive/image to 650M pieces. That gives
me a lot of leeway about how and where I can store them...
The BEST advise I can give is to use the program A LOT and play with it BEFORE
you
need it... As with ANY back-up or "bare-metal recovery" procedure, do the
ENTIRE
process from beginning to end INCLUDING a restore to a different HD to see if
the results
are what you want (or that it actually works -- boots)... Anything else is
playing with fire...
Rick Glazier
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