ATI7 won't image to second HD???

Discussion in 'Acronis True Image Product Line' started by Razzputin, Dec 13, 2006.

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  1. Razzputin

    Razzputin Registered Member

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    OK I have 60 gigs on my C drive. Only 5 gigs of info, including the OS. I want to do a complete backup and send this 5 gigs to a 10 gig partition on my second hard drive. I go throught the wizard and when I get to the last proceed button, I get this error popup about the RPC. I posted this same error when I was trying to burn it directly to DVDs but was informed here that ATI 7 cannot burn directly to DVDs so I resized my partition on the second HD and was told I would be able to send an full backup image there. I must be doing something wrong.

    any help kindly appreciated.
     

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  2. Razzputin

    Razzputin Registered Member

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    OK I started the scheduler up in services and I no longer get the error pop up but I get this (see attachment) and nothing seems to be happening it just says ready to commit?
    The only thing to be committed will be me if I can't get this figured out!!
     

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    Menorcaman Retired Moderator

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    Hello Razzputin,

    Firstly make sure you don't have any other "hanging" scheduled tasks (all backups are "scheduled" tasks whether invoked via the Task Scheduler or started manually) . If so, delete them all and try again. If that isn't applicable then try an uninstall followed by a reinstall/reboot (this usually straightens out any scrambled Registry entries) and see what happens.

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  4. Razzputin

    Razzputin Registered Member

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    Thanks Menorcaman,
    1) there is only 5 gigs of info on the C drive. the rest is empty. It wouldn't take an image of all the space would it/ Maybe I should just transfer each folder (ie) my documents,the OS, etc. as one task at a time?

    2)did you get the same picture / image on your screen as in my last post attachment/ does that start the progress and and just leave it running? so after a few hours you see some sort of progress in the bar graph?
    I wondered because at the bottom mine said "ready" and did not show any progress(mind you I only waited about 10 minutes) to see if anything happened. I did not think it was working as it only said ready but I did not think to leave it on for a day.
    3) 5 gigs would take approx. how long to transfer? do you have toi wait long for the progress graph to indicate a move from ready to actually doing something . I wonder it indicates it is starting to work, after a few minutes or hours??

    how do I get this to activate??
     
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  5. Razzputin

    Razzputin Registered Member

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    Thanks Menorcaman,
    I finally bumbled through it. :D Did not realize I had to set a specific time to run it, :oops:
     
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    One other question.would it be safe to defrag the partition that this is stored on. I just would like to do it once and leave it. This drive will only be used whenI do incremental backups from now on. maybe once a month.
     
  7. dld

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    Yes it is safe to defrag the partition that this is stored on, although the benefit will be minimal.

    I used Diskeeper Lite V9 to analyze my D: drive where I'm storing three Acronis images. Here are the results showing no advantage to defragging:

    http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/927/screenshot060ib3.jpg

    http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/1161/screenshot059ws2.jpg

    Note that this drive has never been defragged.
     
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    While it is possible to defrag, there have been several posts where defrag ruined the backup set. It it were mine, I would not want to take the risk . I would not defrag the drive where the backups are stored.
     
  9. Razzputin

    Razzputin Registered Member

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    OK thanks for the info grover and DLD
     
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