'Reliability' of backup images

[jelenko]

Anybody know the % of times that a backup image is reported as invalid?

There seems to be 'many' posts where a backup image was reported as 'not a valid TI image'. Of course, this forum is used primarily to work problems.

The reason I ask is that I just had TI report an image [on an internal hard drive, 1 full backup only - i.e., no incremental or differential backups] as not a TI file. I had made the image ~ 6 weeks ago and have not done anything with it since then. [At the same time I had also made full backup images to an external USB drive and to a DVD. Both of those images were recognized and successfully restored the image to a new drive].

Thanks

[max0071]

Check in the name of the image you created to make sure it ends with .tib

[jelenko]

-{ Quote: "Check in the name of the image you created to make sure it ends with .tib" }-
Right. It was .tib.

[shieber]

If the file checked out valid after the backup and later was found to be corrupted, this is no more likely an ATI problem as caused by any of a number of other sources, disk problems, OS screw up, another program wrote where it shouldn't have, etc.

sh