"Caveat emptor" - buyer beware

Discussion in 'Acronis True Image Product Line' started by thomasdahl, Aug 17, 2007.

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  1. MudCrab

    MudCrab Imaging Specialist

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    I have a perfect example of this that happened to me recently. I usually validate my images and I did this time. However, the validation failed with a read error. I ran chkdsk /r on the drive (on old spare) and it found a bad sector (this part of the disk hadn't been used in years) and corrected it. I reran the backup and the image validated fine. I prefer to validate because I like to know that the image is good at the time of its creation. Hard drives can fail later, but if you have one fail in the present and can fix it and create another backup, then that's a way better scenario than finding out a month later when you really need it. Also, I don't count this as a validation failure. I count it as a hard drive failure.
     
    MudCrab, Aug 18, 2007
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  2. Peter2150

    Peter2150 Global Moderator

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    Let me give a bit of background on the why I do what I do.

    First is the premise that uptime of my machines is critical. My business depends on them.

    When I first ventured into imaging, I had one desktop, which I had for several years. Had one internal drive and 2 external drives. The thought of starting over with it was scary. So I imaged and verified with 4 different imaging programs and "hoped" if I ever needed to one of the would work. I honestly was terrified of the thought of restoring.

    Then when I bought the first of the new machines, I did what Erik Albert did. I imaged and test restored. Had nothing to lose as I was at factory configuration. I tested restored with all four of my imaging solutions, and discovered that one of them actually consistently failed to restore under certain circumstances. Ouch. Had I relied on that one, and needed it, I would have been out of luck.

    This is when I committed to restoring every image as the true "validation"

    In case anyone is wondering, and for purposes of appropriateness in this forum, I will only say it was NOT Acronis True Image, that failed.

    Pete
     
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