OT Acronis Image Explore

[Alpha]

[I am sorry to post OT to this group, but it has been helpful in this area,
and the Acronis forum for some reason has no joining function.]

Is it impossible to mount a DVD based image backup for exploring? Did I
miss something in the documentation on this, for it seems only hard drive
images can be mounted for exploring.

If so, I consider this a very serious weakness.

 

[Harry Avant]

It works just fine. I do it often. Put in your dvd, select explore
image from the Acronis opening screen and select the drive letter for
you DVD.

 

[Alpha]

It may work with a single DVD, but not an image spanning multiple DVDs....at
least not for me!

It asks for the last volume, and when I give it the last volume, it gives a
'corrupt image file' error. I have tried with DVD-R and DVD-RW.

It works just fine. I do it often. Put in your dvd, select explore
image from the Acronis opening screen and select the drive letter for
you DVD.

[I am sorry to post OT to this group, but it has been helpful in this
area,
and the Acronis forum for some reason has no joining function.]

Is it impossible to mount a DVD based image backup for exploring? Did I
miss something in the documentation on this, for it seems only hard drive
images can be mounted for exploring.

If so, I consider this a very serious weakness.

 

[Harry Avant]

Maybe you do have a bad image file. Did you do a verify image when you
generated it? Most of my image backups are two and three DVDs in size
and again I have no problem. I do a verify before I burn to DVD.

You should be able to perform a verify between the original HD and
your DVD too.

It may work with a single DVD, but not an image spanning multiple DVDs....at
least not for me!

It asks for the last volume, and when I give it the last volume, it gives a
'corrupt image file' error. I have tried with DVD-R and DVD-RW.

It works just fine. I do it often. Put in your dvd, select explore
image from the Acronis opening screen and select the drive letter for
you DVD.

[I am sorry to post OT to this group, but it has been helpful in this
area,
and the Acronis forum for some reason has no joining function.]

Is it impossible to mount a DVD based image backup for exploring? Did I
miss something in the documentation on this, for it seems only hard drive
images can be mounted for exploring.

If so, I consider this a very serious weakness.

 

[Alpha]

Maybe you do have a bad image file. Did you do a verify image when you
generated it? Most of my image backups are two and three DVDs in size
and again I have no problem. I do a verify before I burn to DVD.

You should be able to perform a verify between the original HD and
your DVD too.

Ummm...yes I verified them. I have tried this with numerous DVD R and DVD
RW images.


Which disc do you insert so the program knows the Table of Contents across
the discs? I think it cannot find a general TOC.

Thanks for the help....


(I emailed Acronis as well).

 

[Alpha]

PS

I have an image backup on one DVD and the explorer works fine on it.


I have eight multi-disc partition images and the explorer fails on every
one.

 

[Sharon F]

PS

I have an image backup on one DVD and the explorer works fine on it.


I have eight multi-disc partition images and the explorer fails on every
one.

I haven't got to that part of True Image yet. When reading at the Acronis
website, the impression that I got is that images that span multiple disks
need to be handled differently. If I remember correctly, place the contents
of each DVD into a single folder. Then use Image Explorer to navigate to
that folder. Click on any one file and Image Explorer will take it from
there.

As I said, I have not tried this yet. It's also possible that I
misunderstood what I read. A search on the Acronis site or in the help file
should give better details than what I can recall offhand.

 

[Alpha]

Sharon,

Thank you for suggesting that I explore their terrible help site more fully.
I find this comment on the website:

"The current version of Acronis True Image 8.0 can explore image archive
only if all its volumes reside in the same directory. If your archive spans
over several CD-R(W) discs and you wish to explore the image(s), you should
copy all volumes to a hard disk drive or network drive. A future version of
Acronis True Image 8.0 will allow you to view each image on each CD-R(W). We
apologize in advance for the current inconvenience."



Apologize all you want...this capability has been around for fifteen years
on various programs.

Therefore, even though not stated explicitly in specs or documentation, YOU
CANNOT do spanning of discs. The other poster is wrong, wrong, wrong.

 

[Alpha]

Maybe you do have a bad image file. Did you do a verify image when you
generated it? Most of my image backups are two and three DVDs in size
and again I have no problem. I do a verify before I burn to DVD.

You lie. See my post from Acronis below......

 

[Sharon F]

Sharon,

Thank you for suggesting that I explore their terrible help site more fully.
I find this comment on the website:

"The current version of Acronis True Image 8.0 can explore image archive
only if all its volumes reside in the same directory. If your archive spans
over several CD-R(W) discs and you wish to explore the image(s), you should
copy all volumes to a hard disk drive or network drive. A future version of
Acronis True Image 8.0 will allow you to view each image on each CD-R(W). We
apologize in advance for the current inconvenience."

You're very welcome and thanks for refreshing my memory on this topic. From
that information, the folder idea that I mentioned is not absolutely
necessary but would work and it would be useful for keeping the "set"
together - easy to find, easy to delete when done working with it.