Reply to: Acronis help (Spacecadet?)

[Fred Bloggs]

Nice one Pp, ................ Bloggs now scuttles off to make a Pp type 2 Acronis CD.................

[Platypus]

At present, the (2) CD has booted and is restoring.

WELL, HAVE SEX WITH A DUCK !!!

It worked

Thanks everyone!

[Platypus]

Just to confirm, you are definitely using the TI rescue CD for this, aren't you?

AFAIK there are two types of rescue CD for Acronis:
(1) A generic one, which is supposed to boot up any PC. From the forums, this generic rescue CD seems to have many many issues with hardware drivers and there are many posts from people saying "does not work". This seems to be the one people have a go with when doing a "bare metal restore" (i.e. restore to a system with dis-similar hardware), but I could be wrong about that.
(2) One specific to your system, created from within Acronis TI itself, using the "Create Rescue CD" option. Used to boot and recover a specific system.

I started with (1) which didn't work, hence my appeal. Then I re-installed Windows on the target PC, installed Acronis, and created a rescue disk of type (2).

At present, the (2) CD has booted and is restoring. In the event of failure, I'll have another go with (1) the updated version of which I think is what SC sent me a download link for.

Is my understanding.

[cojak]

Just to confirm, you are definitely using the TI rescue CD for this, aren't you?

[Platypus]

It's a bit late now, but for large backups and restores I've found it much faster to put them on separate disks.

I've got 2 internal SATA disks and backing up from one to the other is pretty swift. ....

I'm restoring from one internal SATA connected drive (which contains the TIB file) to another (the target drive).
I'd agree that backup is swift. I've not tried restore before. I guess I don't care how long it takes *IF* it eventually works.

The version of Acronis Restore (rescue) that supports USB connected devices just hung, so I'm using the so-called "Safe" version. Maybe it's much slower?!

[cojak]

Sorry guys, I dropped out of this thread when I thought you were dealing with acronis server, which might have been different to my problems.

I have acronis TI 10, which I only use for partition imaging these days.

Here's the thread where I put my findings. I still have the corrupt TIB that I occasionally try to fix (lord knows why).

There's loads of info out there on this subject, I just wish I'd researched it earlier.

[Sysman]

The partition is 150GB in size, approx 100Gb used.

The latest message is "5 hours remaining" !

It's a bit late now, but for large backups and restores I've found it much faster to put them on separate disks.

I've got 2 internal SATA disks and backing up from one to the other is pretty swift. Backing up 200 GB to an external USB disk was in comparison slow, at approx 4 hours. In comparison your 5 hours looks about right.

On the MBR problem, in Win95/98 days I knew how to build a floppy with just enough to create an MBR. How to Make a USB Drive Bootable in 5 Minutes looks promising.

[Platypus]

How big is your partition if its taking 3 hours to restore? I'm sure it took me about 20 minutes to restore the C partition

The partition is 150GB in size, approx 100Gb used.

The latest message is "5 hours remaining" !

[Spacecadet]

I'm restoring the C: partition, should I restore the MBR too? Currently I'm thinking that I may not need to do this.

I'll know in approx 5 hours whether the restored disk boots. Fingers crossed!

MBR - good question, for the life of me I can't remember, although it did take me a few attempts to get the restore process working when I upgraded. (I really should have made notes)
I think in the end I installed windows on to the new drive at the same time creating the partitions then just restored my old C partition over the new install.
Then it was a case of simply copying my backed up data files on to the other two partitions

How big is your partition if its taking 3 hours to restore? I'm sure it took me about 20 minutes to restore the C partition

[Platypus]

All I have is TIB files and I've restored many times from them.

The situation at present is:
(1) Re-Installed Windows, wiping the corrupted hard-drive
(2) Installed Acronis TI, created 'rescue' CD
(3) Booted the rescue CD (which now works )
(4) Currently restoring the TIB file to the drive (overwriting my resh copy of windows)

I'm hoping that this will put everything right!

I'm restoring the C: partition, should I restore the MBR too? Currently I'm thinking that I may not need to do this.

I'll know in approx 5 hours whether the restored disk boots. Fingers crossed!

[Spacecadet]

The recovery CD won't boot, meaning I can't even get to the stage of trying to restore.

More info: I have a TIB file on a 2nd hard-drive, from which I'm hoping to restore the system to its original state

All I have is TIB files and I've restored many times from them.

Have you tried mounting the TIB file as a drive?

[Platypus]

Do you mean that the CD won't boot, or that after a restore the machine won't boot?

The recovery CD won't boot, meaning I can't even get to the stage of trying to restore.

More info: I have a TIB file on a 2nd hard-drive, from which I'm hoping to restore the system to its original state

[VectraMan]

Do you mean that the CD won't boot, or that after a restore the machine won't boot?

[Platypus]

Note to self: Make sure PC boots from Acronis recovery disk and can access the backups.

You're darn tootin'

My current plan B : re-install windows on the knackered hard-drive, install Acronis, make a boot disk for that system, boot the CD ... but if what Cojak implies is true, I'm snookered anyway because I have a TIB file.

[Platypus]

OK - I just created an ISO from the Acronis utility, you can download it from here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1630056/AcronisMedia.iso

No Guarantees!

Should point out - I'm on V10 now but I guess it should recognise older backups

Many many thanks! I'll give it a go.