8hrs to restore??

[NightWalker]

Originally Posted by IThurts

This is the reason im a little pee'd off with it all tbh. Knowing i wasted yet *another* weekend doing this crap.
Like you said though...lessons learned and all that..

I don’t think of stuff like that as wasted time. This is computing, its what I do at work and what I do during some of my spare time. At the moment I am in to overclocking my PC, I have however worked up over the years from being a complete beginner to earning my living with computers. Computing takes time, you have to get stuff wrong to get it right next time. There is only so much time you can spend online or playing games, but getting your hands dirty and mucking about with your PC is all part of the fun...

I have spent god knows how many hours doing similar things, when I upgraded my mobo last month I had to break my RAID0 array as I was going to move my OS to a single drive, my Acronis backup let me down (always validate!) and I spent all weekend re-installing Vista from scratch... a bit annoying, but I discoverd lots of settings I had not used for ages, and made the whole thing better in the end.

I have a few computers, so if I bugger one up I can always use another to do my day to day online stuff.

[neutralhills]

Am i looking at a failing restore knowing i have put in a username that is not at all associated with acronis? Surely acronis would have told me BEFORE the restore if my usernam was incorrect?

I've only ever passworded one backup, and this was WAAAY back when I first started using the program. If memory serves, it should fail you on a bad password attempt before it does the restore.

My rules for Acronis:

1. It takes time to use so let the customer know.
2. ALWAYS validate backups.

I've got a 4TB Buffalo Terrastation NAS sitting in the back of my store configured for RAID5. Every system that comes in has the hard drive pulled and imaged with Acronis and the file dropped onto the server *before* I do anything to the machine. If I screw up and bork something, at least I can get the data back. Good way to avoid lawsuits. In some cases this costs me up to a day, but I'm a big believer in practicing safe hex.

[IThurts]

Yea well i validated my backup when i first created it. Didnt show any error msgs so i think im good. I hadnt validated the differential backup mind, but feel that all was ok.

Lets see what happens eh..?
In re to the username thing...i just find it odd that i didnt actually create a username/pass, i type in my windows username and it doesnt fail my restore....yet I think it would be a pretty useless piece of crap if it fails my restore AFTER the 8hr wait due to an incorrect username...surely it should do that before if it was going to.

[Crito]

eSATA is great for this kind of stuff. Most new external hard drives come with the interface, as did my new HP laptop. Hot-swapping is actually part of the SATA2 (300) spec, so a $10 bracket from eBay is really all you need to add support for it to most PCs. I wouldn't attempt it with SATA-150 though.

Doesn't do you much good now, I know, but maybe something to keep in mind for the future. ;)

http://www.sata-io.org/esata.asp

[IThurts]

Originally Posted by Crito

eSATA is great for this kind of stuff. Most new external hard drives come with the interface, as did my new HP laptop. Hot-swapping is actually part of the SATA2 (300) spec, so a $10 bracket from eBay is really all you need to add support for it to most PCs. I wouldn't attempt it with SATA-150 though.

Doesn't do you much good now, I know, but maybe something to keep in mind for the future. ;)

http://www.sata-io.org/esata.asp

...........lol

thanks for the HU.

[IThurts]

Just to let you guys know, done the restore, all went well afaik.

thanx for the help!

[Bluerinse]

Originally Posted by IThurts

Just to let you guys know, done the restore, all went well afaik.

thanx for the help!

I can hear your sigh of relief from here

[IThurts]

Originally Posted by Bluerinse

I can hear your sigh of relief from here

your not wrong...