Temporarily disable True Image?
Other than uninstalling it, is there no way to temporarily disable True Image?
I'm working on recovering a crashed hard drive, and I can't have True Image interrupt my work whenever it thinks it's time to run a backup. Not because the crashed hard drive is one that True Image uses, but because it's using the same USB bus as the backup drive, and I sometimes completely lose the USB bus while I'm working on recovering that other hard drive so even if I allow it True Image would likely end up with a corrupted backup due to communication error as there will be a broken USB bus line while it's doing its backup business (unless I put my work aside and let True Image do its work first).
So I'd rather see True Image leave me be while I'm doing this important work. So how do I disable it? There are so many components to it, several different EXE files and services, I dare not kill them all off like a mad man (but I'm tempted!). Is there no two click option to temporarily disable it, similar to how many antivirus software can be disabled?
Samir, I think the easiest way might be to stop the Acronis Scheduler2 service. If you think you'll be rebooting then you may want to set the service to Disabled temporarily.
I ended up removing the backup tasks. I tried stopping services and killing processes (it's quite a few of these!) but some of them kept popping back into existence. So I did the only thing that seemed most reasonable at the time and removed them rather than messing up my True Image installation. It's a pity that there is no Pause button of sorts, like some antivirus software have.
For the record, I managed to recover nearly everything from my knocked down Seagate 4 TB hard drive (a first for me).
It's a 99.9999836 % success! Of the 344 GB (370,154,371,693 bytes) in total, I recovered 344 GB (370,154,311,002 bytes). It's only some stubborn 60,691 byte (59 kb) JPG file that I didn't recover. It's not something I can't live without.
This hard drive is not my main backup disk and I didn't have anything very important on it. But it was a fun and quite educational exercise, something I have not done before. It took me about 4 days to get to this point. And luckily I grabbed my data off of that hard drive just in time, because I left it plugged in today and when I came back no more than 2 hours later I found it powered down and it no longer powers on for some reason. I don't know what happened while I was gone, and frankly at this point I don't care. I got what I wanted.
This is a reminder like no other to backup your files if you care not to lose them! Your hard drive may not fail on its own (for a long time), but accidents do happen. You don't want to be the one calling a data recovery company and paying big money to salvage whatever data they can off of it. Hard drives are expandable, your data most likely is not.