Setup: PC with multiple internal drives. External RAID array for backups. A couple of large USB connected drives. I have 2 computers. One for my wife and one for me. Hers broke - MB and PS. Solution: build system for me, transfer my drives and information. Do a recovery with new hardware. Give her my old machine and recover to new hardware with her old system image.
I had a backup of her machine on the external RAID array. I had a couple of generations of backups of my machine. I backed up the USB drives to RAID.
Initially I had two drives in RAID for my boot disk on my system. That turned out to not be useful/handy,so I broke the RAID. That has been fine for many months. C was my boot drive, and D was just sitting there and was the old image of C. But of course things moved on so they were not the same anymore.
I am at the point of reconfiguring machines. At some point the old D drive showed up as having no drive letter assigned. I don't remember what changed that. I assigned it to drive G. A potential mistake because a previous drive I removed had been assigned G. It may have screwed up by confusing this drive with the old backup of G.
I did a clone drive from C to G. As far as I could tell,it worked. However when I was making a last check of things before taking the computer apart; aaarrrhg. Things went to Hell.
My external RAID drive shows none of my previous backups. When I view the log, it shows only the last action where I was trying to clone C. All my previous backups are gone. Looking at the two drives involved in the clone, there is a major difference in the amount of data on each to the other. I have been searching for an application that will compare the file contents on one drive to another. I have not found anything useful.
One guess is that for some reason C and D have exchanged drive letters. They certainly not clones. Another is that the machine is now booting from what was D rather than what was C. Thus it would not have the information of the previous Reflect backups. I just don't know.
Where are the log files and any relevant backup information stored on the disk(s)?
What happened? Is it really all gone? how can I reconcile C and G (once D)?
My head is seriously broken here. Help,help,help.
Amongst the actual explanation, can someone point me to a program that will do a compare between two drives and note the differences?
Here is the only log I can find. It is the one from the clone. There are messages in there I simply don't understand and seem to indicate something was not done correctly.
Could not do a screen copy of log.
I had a backup of her machine on the external RAID array. I had a couple of generations of backups of my machine. I backed up the USB drives to RAID.
Initially I had two drives in RAID for my boot disk on my system. That turned out to not be useful/handy,so I broke the RAID. That has been fine for many months. C was my boot drive, and D was just sitting there and was the old image of C. But of course things moved on so they were not the same anymore.
I am at the point of reconfiguring machines. At some point the old D drive showed up as having no drive letter assigned. I don't remember what changed that. I assigned it to drive G. A potential mistake because a previous drive I removed had been assigned G. It may have screwed up by confusing this drive with the old backup of G.
I did a clone drive from C to G. As far as I could tell,it worked. However when I was making a last check of things before taking the computer apart; aaarrrhg. Things went to Hell.
My external RAID drive shows none of my previous backups. When I view the log, it shows only the last action where I was trying to clone C. All my previous backups are gone. Looking at the two drives involved in the clone, there is a major difference in the amount of data on each to the other. I have been searching for an application that will compare the file contents on one drive to another. I have not found anything useful.
One guess is that for some reason C and D have exchanged drive letters. They certainly not clones. Another is that the machine is now booting from what was D rather than what was C. Thus it would not have the information of the previous Reflect backups. I just don't know.
Where are the log files and any relevant backup information stored on the disk(s)?
What happened? Is it really all gone? how can I reconcile C and G (once D)?
My head is seriously broken here. Help,help,help.
Amongst the actual explanation, can someone point me to a program that will do a compare between two drives and note the differences?
Here is the only log I can find. It is the one from the clone. There are messages in there I simply don't understand and seem to indicate something was not done correctly.
Could not do a screen copy of log.