![]() I cannot understand how an image can be corrupted after it has been verified as being okay. When you create your Incremental image(s), and then when you are asked to point to a previous image you have created, you are clicking on the Full image, correct? and not the last Incremental image you created? Secondly…. ![]() Granted, this first question is very elementary but it won’t hurt to ask. Unfortunately, I have more questions than answers after reading your post. TI is not really creating an image, rather it is creating a “virtual image” that does NOT include ALL sectors on a drive. Traditional backup programs are less prone to get in trouble due to defragging, unless they too make dumb decisions in their backup format. Phil seems to have run into a problem situation. I suspect that ALL the image based backup programs have susceptibility in this area. So defragmentation is not precluded with TI, but it appears that their format is sensitive fo defragging working correctly and the way TI creates a, for wont of a better term, “virtual image”. This is because the defragmentation program changes the location on disk and incremental images reflect these changes.” “An incremental image created after a disk is defragmented might be considerably larger than ususal. ![]() I think that they ke is the following from page 7 of the Acronis user guide: The alternatives would be another “image” backup program, if it does not have that same shortcoming, or one of the traditional back up programs. If the assertion that defrag screws up a TI image is true, and it is unclear from the posts here whether it is, then the TI format has serious shortcomings. Trying to put all this together makes my head swim. I purged all the protected files & the count went down to about 3%. When I checked the drive once with Windows defragger, it showed about 47% fragmented. I also have Norton Protected Recycle Bin on the computer. I took the computer to Comp USA for a diagnostic, but they couldn’t find anything wrong (except that they said the drive was fragmented). I have a feeling that more than one thing is going on. I also have an external firewire drive (FAT 32) & I can back up to that drive without problems. However, if I choose a fixed size of about 3.1 Gigs, TI will divide up the image & it comes out OK (even though both externals are NTFS). There are times that I can make a complete image & it will start out corrupt. I can always explore the corrupt image & copy files (of course, I can only spot check). I agree, John, although I’ve also had the experience of running True Image & having a file verified for several days (as I do incrementals), & then show up corrupt.
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