Acronis True Image 9.1 Enterprise Server - User Guide - Manual (Page 84)

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Chapter 11. Other operations
11.1 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. The Acronis Secure Zone can be selected only as a whole
because all its contents is considered as a single archive.
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.
11.2 Operation results notification
Sometimes a backup or restore procedure can last for 30 minutes or more. Acronis True
Image Workstation can notify you when it is finished using the WinPopup service or via e-
mail. The program can also duplicate messages issued during the operation or send you the
full operation log after operation completion.
By default all notifications are disabled.