Nonstop backup won't stop backing up...Redundant sounding, I know.
So a buddy of mine has ATIH 2011 and recommended it's nonstop backup to me. I've setup, via ATIH 2012, a nonstop backup on a local drive with about 500GB worth on it to be saved onto another, 3TB capacity local drive. The backup starts, writes the data, etc., the process taking a couple hours as expected. After it's done, it runs through again but without writing anything, although data is being read off both drives - perhaps a verification step? This takes about twice as long. Ok, makes sense I guess. Then when that's done, it does it again, taking twice as long... This pattern of exponentially increasing verification - or whatever it is - keeps going for days until I manually stop it, at which point it tells me there are no valid backups. This feature worked fine for my buddy, backing up 2+TB, and if there are no valid backups, what were you doing for the past 4 days? Any insight would be much appreciated!
Zhayton,
What build of 2012 are you using? First try a repair install of 2012, reboot and see if the problem still occurs.
How many files do you see in the hidden TIMELINE folder and how large is each slice?
Are the files showing a modified date that matches up with the excessive disk activity?
What other processes do you have running in the background - Microsoft Outlook, databases etc?
Could you give a little more information about your set up, OS, RAM, video card?
Build 7119
2 hidden folders in the Timeline folder, one for the smaller backup, and one massive one for the 500GB first attempt (despite supposedly deleting it).
Yes, showing a modified date.
Nothing substantial running in the background.
Windows 7 64bit, 12GB RAM, Radeon 5750, core i7 920.
The smaller, test nonstop backup got to 7 backup versions when I did a little digging and found "afcdpsrv.exe" was running in the background trying to constantly write that giant 500GB backup the whole time. So the smaller nonstop was behaving correctly, but that ghost backup was being persistent for some reason. I deleted it from the list, I halted ATIH and manually deleted the attempted 500GB backup, and when I restarted it resumed it from the beginning. Right now I'm trying a uninstall/reinstall and starting over.
Delete the hidden NSB storage folders on the NSB destination disk before reinstalling.
Right now 5 of my 6 hard drives are being backed up. My boot drive is a smaller, faster SSD, so that itself is setup as a Nonstop Backup. The rest are either full drive backups or file backups (drive minus some editing folders) set to update in staggered increments every night. I had to add everything to the lists in smaller, more manageable chunks. This seems to be the only stable way to get everything backed up. Could it be that Nonstop Backup is either not meant for or broken when it comes to massive, multi terabyte backups?