Verified Acronis images fail to restore

[ell]

Hi, this has happened to me twice in a row now and I'm wondering if I'm missing something here. I created a vista backup image to a sata drive in a usb adapter, verified it in the process, but then when I go to restore it the recovery fails, the log says the image is corrupted!? Ideas?

[DCGPX]

First off which version of Acronis ?

[bertie40]

Personal opinion.
Ditch acronis.

I've tried several versions over the years and had nothing but trouble. I've no confidence in it. I gave it another chance last year, but it has ballooned into bloatware.

As suggested, check out which version was used to creation, and if it has been updated.

Alternatively see if a patch has been released recently. ( not necessarily a good thing, one of their patches well and truly trashed an earlier version a few years ago).

Good luck.

[gikstar]

I bought an SSD hard drive a while back and it came with a disk titled SSDNOW by Acronis.

I haven't had any problems with it... great program as I usually use it to clone the drive. Allows me to clone a 200Gb drive to an 80Gb drive as long as the 200 gb drive has used less than say, 70Gbs.

For backup and restore functions I use ShadowProtect.

[ell]

Originally Posted by DCGPX

First off which version of Acronis ?

2010 acronis with universal restore, really annoying, I ran chkdsk /r on the drive too, and the image mounted fine on my bench pc. I just read the archive corruption error is just a catch-all for any type of error, the image could be just fine. helpful. I like the universal restore feature, when it works its great, anybody heard of an alternative?

[DCGPX]

I've used Acronis plenty of times and it's never let me down, I prefer 2009 over latest. I use 2011 for latest PCs even though I have 2012

Couple of Q :

What compression level are you using, I did find that USB doesn't like high so I leave on default and also tell it not to skip errors so I can deal with them if it finds any on a first run

Have you tried restoring to a vm as a test?

I also use paragon as it has universal restore as well plus O&O pro

Between then I've not had any issues, if I suspect a drive or it's important data I'll backup using a combination of these so I have some risk contingency.

Exactly what error code does your log show?

[Peaceful]

I've used Acronis exclusively for several years now, but been meaning to try out
Easus. I've noticed even when cloneing a healthy drive it's an all day process
with Acronis, so hoping Easus might speed up the process some?

[iisjman07]

Severely dislike Acronis right now as I've had a similar issue of it corrupting archives (I've been using the same old boot disk version for a couple of years). Might look into Paragon's adaptive restore, but for now it's back to PartImage, which at least is the quickest I've found.

[ell]

Originally Posted by DCGPX

I've used Acronis plenty of times and it's never let me down, I prefer 2009 over latest. I use 2011 for latest PCs even though I have 2012

Couple of Q :

What compression level are you using, I did find that USB doesn't like high so I leave on default and also tell it not to skip errors so I can deal with them if it finds any on a first run

Have you tried restoring to a vm as a test?

I also use paragon as it has universal restore as well plus O&O pro

Between then I've not had any issues, if I suspect a drive or it's important data I'll backup using a combination of these so I have some risk contingency.

Exactly what error code does your log show?

I have driverpacks in a folder in the same usb drive as my images, can paragon universal use driverpacks just like acronis universal? I may want to look into it, I didn't use any compression, just all the default settings.

[hondablaster]

For us, Acronis works far better over a network share than it did over USB. We had several issues with USB just shutting off or not detecting.

You can also build a winPE disk using the PE creator and merge drivers into it as well. This has been very helpful on brand new machines with newer chipsets.

Hope this helps.