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
 
MEL said:
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?
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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.
 
MEL said:
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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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.
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Dave

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MEL said:
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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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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