Chapter 10. Other operations
10.1 Validating backup archives
To be certain that your archives are not damaged, you can check their integrity.
1. To invoke the
Backup Archive Validation Wizard
, select
Validate Backup Archive
in
the main window or in the
Tools
group or click
Validate Backup Archive
on the toolbar.
2. Click
Next
.
3. Select the archive to validate. If the archive is located in Acronis Secure Zone, select it to
choose the archive on the next step.
4. Click
Next
.
5. Clicking
Proceed
will launch the validation procedure. After the validation is complete,
you will see the results window. You can cancel checking by clicking
Cancel
.
To check data from an archive containing incremental backups, you must have all
incremental backup files and the initial full backup. If any successive backups are missing
from the archive, the validation is not possible.
To check data from a differential backup, you must have the initial full backup as well.
However, if you created several differential or both incremental and differential backups
based on the same full backup (and therefore, in the same folder), you will need ALL of
these successive backups to validate the archive.
10.2 Viewing logs
Acronis True Image Home allows users to view its working logs. They can provide
information about scheduled backup tasks results, including reasons for failure, if any.
To invoke the log window, select
Show log
on the toolbar or from the
Tools
menu.
The log browsing window contains two panes: the left one features the log list, while the
right one shows selected log contents.
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