Serious Acronis TrueImage problem

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Synapse Syndrome

When restoring a system drive with TrueImage, all symbolic links, hard links
and directory junctions seem to turn into normal folders!

Isn't this a major problem?? How come nobody has mentioned this before??

ss.
 
I have restored my drive about 10-15 times now (lots of testing). I am also
using the latest version of TrueImage HOME (Vista ready). I have never had
this happen. Maybe you are an anomaly.

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Regards,

Richard Urban MVP
Microsoft Windows Shell/User
 
I too have restored an HP laptop several times with HOME TI 10 and have had
no issues at all. perect each time! Hope that you get a solution.

Billy
 
Synapse Syndrome said:
When restoring a system drive with TrueImage, all symbolic links, hard links and directory
junctions seem to turn into normal folders!

Isn't this a major problem?? How come nobody has mentioned this before??

ss.
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Strange.
I've tested the images I created with TrueImage a few times,
and I've not had any problems.


-Michael
 
When restoring a system drive with TrueImage, all symbolic links, hard links
and directory junctions seem to turn into normal folders!

Isn't this a major problem?? How come nobody has mentioned this before??

ss.
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I saw something about that happening if you made some registry
changes/hack to move the users folder away from the system drive.

It was in one of the ms.public.vista groups.


Regards
 
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.. Maybe you are an anomaly.

Are you saying the OP is an anomaly or simply that his results have been
anomalous <G>
 
Dennis_N said:
I saw something about that happening if you made some registry
changes/hack to move the users folder away from the system drive.

It was in one of the ms.public.vista groups.
Click to expand...


Yes! this is what I have done. I have moved all but Desktop onto a RAID1
array. So that narrows it down at least.

This is really pretty bad, as there are a lot of standard hardlinks in the
User folder, and I have added a bunch of junctions as well. It will be
quite painstaking to find them all and make a batch file to delete them and
remake them.

I just checked the virtual machines with TrueImage and they are just single
drive/partition installations which don't suffer from this problem, but with
my new way of organising things it looks like restoring images is going to
be more work this way rather than less.

ss.
 
Yes! this is what I have done. I have moved all but Desktop onto a RAID1
array. So that narrows it down at least.

This is really pretty bad, as there are a lot of standard hardlinks in the
User folder, and I have added a bunch of junctions as well. It will be
quite painstaking to find them all and make a batch file to delete them and
remake them.
Ups...


I just checked the virtual machines with TrueImage and they are just single
drive/partition installations which don't suffer from this problem, but with
my new way of organising things it looks like restoring images is going to
be more work this way rather than less.

ss.
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Yeah.. but one wonders though... Shouldn't Acronis make an 'image' of
the HDD ? - then why is these changes not backed up with the image ? ¨
That's kind of odd....

Your image was created AFTER you made these changes right ?


Regards
 
Dennis_N said:
Yeah.. but one wonders though... Shouldn't Acronis make an 'image' of
the HDD ? - then why is these changes not backed up with the image ? ¨
That's kind of odd....

Your image was created AFTER you made these changes right ?
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Of course. And they are changes that many people would make when they start
changing the Location tab of User Shell Folders.

I think what TrueImage must be doing is expecting the standard hardlinks (as
a kind of compatibility kludge) and anything else it assumes is a folder.

ss.
 
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