Asr Won’t Save!

[Daffy D]

Hi

Being a good person trying to observe good computing procedure I try regularly to back up.

I have several ways to do this, I use Norton Ghost and the SyncBack program as well as M$ ARS.

OK I’m a belt and braces kind of guy plus sticky tape and string.

For years I’ve had no problems but this last time when I tried to do a ASR back up all goes well till the last 18 seconds when I get the “Sorry encountered a problem have to close Bla! Bla!”

I have run Reg Clean, Virus checks; Ad-Aware and SpyBot but it will not save ASR.

When I initiate ASR it goes through the right motions, and runs for about an hour till it come to the last 18seconds when it gives the “Sorry” notice.

Looking at the destination folder there is about 16gb of stuff in there so it has done something but if I try to restore the back-up it is the wrong file type.

Any Ideas anyone?

Thank's

D.D.

Edited April 6, 2007 by Daffy D

[Kyosuken]

Aw that one is hit or miss. Best bet is to stick with Ghost, at first i thought you were talking about system restore. Well the automatic system recovery is like a ghost anyway (but nowhere as good), and wipes anything on the hard drive, plus it's better be used for system only instead of full disk backup (it's supposed to be used from a boot CD/DVD so holding 16GB of datas would be tricky). Now if you try to do a backup only of your datas (and not in an automated fashion) still better to backup manually your data too after all 16GB is roughly 4 DvD not too much to backup.

Ghost is much better, cause you can restore the drive from anywhere. Even better if you use something like BartPE (live Windows on a CD/DVD) you can even use Ghost to restore from network as well (more easily if you have a windows only network card). If i recall Ghost enterprise can do automatic/incremental backups as well so you can restore only parts of the system and not everything (very handy).

I know my answer is not a solution to your problem, NTbackup maybe broken or something is bothering it while trying to get some files (maybe flies locked on the harddrive ?). But in this case better go with another solution than trying to fix something broken.

[Daffy D]

Aw that one is hit or miss. Best bet is to stick with Ghost, at first i thought you were talking about system restore. Well the automatic system recovery is like a ghost anyway (but nowhere as good), and wipes anything on the hard drive, plus it's better be used for system only instead of full disk backup (it's supposed to be used from a boot CD/DVD so holding 16GB of datas would be tricky). Now if you try to do a backup only of your datas (and not in an automated fashion) still better to backup manually your data too after all 16GB is roughly 4 DvD not too much to backup.

Ghost is much better, cause you can restore the drive from anywhere. Even better if you use something like BartPE (live Windows on a CD/DVD) you can even use Ghost to restore from network as well (more easily if you have a windows only network card). If i recall Ghost enterprise can do automatic/incremental backups as well so you can restore only parts of the system and not everything (very handy).

I know my answer is not a solution to your problem, NTbackup maybe broken or something is bothering it while trying to get some files (maybe flies locked on the harddrive ?). But in this case better go with another solution than trying to fix something broken.

Yea! I hear what you are saying and agree it’s no big problem. I just like things to work and if they don't like to find out why.

Knowledge for its own sake is not a bad thing.

D.D.