ATI10 Multivolume Archive Silly Question?

[ChrisH57]

Have just completed my first image and restore cycle using brand new ATI 10 Home (ex Ghost user). Everything worked fine, but I have a question that I might be able to answer myself if I wasn't feeling so thick at the moment.

The image created was a "multivolume image archive" - xxxx1.tib & xxxx2.tib on external USB HD. When I did the restore, ATI asked for source file. I couldn't find any advice in Help, so I picked xxxx1.tib (seemed logical). Would picking xxxx2.tib have worked also?

Maybe the Help authors could add a line in "Recovery - Archive Selection" about picking #1 or #2, etc? Could help late at night when you're in mid-thrash and not at your best!

Chris

[thomasjk]

-{ Quote: "Have just completed my first image and restore cycle using brand new ATI 10 Home (ex Ghost user). Everything worked fine, but I have a question that I might be able to answer myself if I wasn't feeling so thick at the moment.

The image created was a "multivolume image archive" - xxxx1.tib & xxxx2.tib on external USB HD. When I did the restore, ATI asked for source file. I couldn't find any advice in Help, so I picked xxxx1.tib (seemed logical). Would picking xxxx2.tib have worked also?

Maybe the Help authors could add a line in "Recovery - Archive Selection" about picking #1 or #2, etc? Could help late at night when you're in mid-thrash and not at your best!

Chris" }-You can select any of the archives and TI will handle the restore. The reason you have a multi-volume archive is your external drive is formatted FAT32 and the maximum file size for FAT32 is 4GB.

[Acronis Support]

Help ChrisH57,

Thank you for choosing Acronis Disk Backup Software (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/).

Please be aware that regardless of which volume (.tib file) of the image archive you have selected for the restoration Acronis True Image 10.0 Home (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/features.html) will recognize all of them as the entire image archive (all volumes should reside in the same folder).
Please also notice that thomasjk is correct: when you are saving backup to a drive with FAT32 filesystem, it will be automatically split to parts of about 4gb due to FAT32 filesystem limitations.

You can find the detailed instructions on how to use Acronis True Image 10.0 Home in the respective User's Guide (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/download/docs/).

Thank you.
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Marat Setdikov

[ChrisH57]

"You can find the detailed instructions on how to use Acronis True Image 10.0 Home in the respective User's Guide."

Yes I can, and they're very nice too, but the answer to as to which archive file to pick isn't in the user's guide either! Seems to be exactly the same text as the help file.

Chris