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Thread ID: 77561	2007-03-14 00:33:00	Acronis Backup	Pato (2463)	Press F1

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532781	2007-03-14 00:33:00	After plowing my way through the 90 odd page Manual I think I have done an image of my HDD although I don't know how one checks it. I have backed up to an external HDD. Can I add other data that is not presently on my PC to that HDD without upsetting the image restore should it be necessary?. Pat.	Pato (2463)
532782	2007-03-14 00:52:00	Just so long as you do not format the external HDD, yes you can add to it.	Bryan (147)
532783	2007-03-14 00:56:00	Can I add other data that is not presently on my PC to that HDD without upsetting the image restore should it be necessary?. Pat. By this I presume that you mean when you add more programs, images and data to the hard drive on your PC ? (or do you mean from another source ?) If the former then no problem. You have the choice of adding either incrementally or differentially. Incrementally is adding (or deleting) whatever has changed since your last session and so on. Differentially is the way to just have one file which records changes but the file is superseded each time you do it. Differential takes longer of course (but is the one I use !). In both instances your first image stays and is then added to. Hope that makes sense. If not, check your manual specifically for the meaning of incremental and differential. Or alternatively let us know and we can try explaining in other terms. Misty :) PS - Acronis is a very good choice :thumbs:	Misty (368)
532784	2007-03-14 00:58:00	Just so long as you do not format the external HDD, yes you can add to it. Thanks Bryan. Is there a way of telling if your backup was successful or do you just have to rely on the 'successful' message?. I may have missed something in the rather large manual.	Pato (2463)
532785	2007-03-14 01:47:00	You need to connect the external drive and check. When you use Acronis it sets up a Backup place on another drive, ie your external one. I am at work at present so do not have the doucumentation with me but I'm sure Misty will have the answer.	Bryan (147)
532786	2007-03-14 02:43:00	Thanks Misty and I will have another look at the Manual. I just wanted to know if I can, for example, download data straight onto my external drive and it will not upset an image restore and Bryan has confirmed that. My eternal HDD is 320GB and on reflection I probably should have just put the image onto DVD's as there is a lot of free space on external drive. Overkill on my part I guess. Cheers.	Pato (2463)
532787	2007-03-14 03:30:00	Yes you can, the image file will be named *name*.tib. If you need to do a restore from this image, it will only use that file, nothing else off the hard drive. In the true image program, I am sure there is a way of verifying a backup image after you have done it, which is always worth doing.	Enigmur (10547)
532788	2007-03-14 04:45:00	In ver 9 you can verify the .tib image file, look for "Check Archive", this feature must be in ver 10.	zqwerty (97)
532789	2007-03-14 06:56:00	Another thought is that when I bought my external hard drive I had it partitioned. Being cautious -- I image twice (ie separately on different days, on each partition), then differentially backup. Perhaps overkill. However partitioning seems the "cream on the cake" in your situation ! Misty :cool:	Misty (368)
532790	2007-03-14 07:44:00	Another thought is that when I bought my external hard drive I had it partitioned. Being cautious -- I image twice (ie separately on different days, on each partition), then differentially backup. Perhaps overkill. However partitioning seems the "cream on the cake" in your situation ! Misty :cool: My internal 200GB HDD is partitioned into four 50GB partitions but I never even considered partitioning the external drive. There is more to this backup than I thought.	Pato (2463)
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