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Apparent rogue Windows backup in addition to Acronis backup.

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I have had an Acronis disk backup running successfully for some months. No problems.
But every month I seem to also have a rogue Windows backup run which I have no idea where it comes from. It appears as a new dir ("STUDY-PC") from the root on my backup drive. See attached screen-shot. If I drill down the next dir is a "Backup Set..." and also a "Catalogs" dir which has a file "GlobalCatalog.wbcat".

I have no idea where this backup is originating from.
Any ideas

Mark J

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Hmmm. Disappointing I haven't garnered any replies. I wonder if there is a better forum in which to post?

Tks,
Mark J

Launch ATI, in the main windows, upper right, click on the gear menu and choose Integrate in windows. Uncheck the box about the control panel. Close ATI. Then go to the Windows backup control panel and delete the scheduled backup you have there.

Or simply go to Windows task scheduler, look for backup tasks and disable the running task.

Thanks so much.... some success

1.
I found the offending task in Yask scheduler. Saw that it had been created by my user login and so deleted it. Good!

2.
I was unable to un-integrate Acronis from Windows despite numerous tries. I rebooted between each try. The first checkbox remained ticked. Hmmm.

3.
I looked at Windows backup and could see a single job listed there. But it is broken. It reports zero filesize. Open location results in an error of unknown location. So obviously a problem there...

I'm happier now without the rogue backup task gone. Though I still have to look into the newly discovered issues.

Thanks for the help Pat.
Mark J

Was that leftover broken Windows backup a full system image, or just a backup of some specified files and folders? Is it possible that any of it was deleted from the backup destination drive manually or by some other process? Or maybe the destination drive itself was altered?

What may happen in such cases is that the Win7 Backup and Recovery feature's \System Volume Information\Windows Backup\Catalogs\ data may get "out of sync" with the actual current \WindowsImageBackup\ contents and its Catalog data. Don't worry too much about it. It is likely to correct itself with an automatic data update if and when you ever use the Win7 Backup and Recovery panel again.

That's assuming, of course, that the Acronis "integration" takeover will ever allow you to use it again. The stupid damned thing even REinstalls itself in the registry when the main TIH application is UNinstalled. And no, I'm not kidding!

The Broken Win BU attributes are:

Type: Disk Backup
Versions: 7536756 (last: 24/03/1970)
Total Size: 0 bytes
Open location: returns a "Cannot find location....."
Edit settings: Opens an Acronis task. But not one I recognise/use.
Explore & Recover opens Acronis but with an error dialog titled "Acronis Time Explorer" with message "The given URI is empty" .
I don't want to press "Backup Now" on what is a broken job.

Okay. What you are seeing is the Acronis "integrated" panel, not the real Win7 Backup and Recovery panel. So ignore what I said above about it possibly being due to the Win7 Backup and Recovery feature's own data. It's actually a broken TIH task that needs removal or correction.

In theory, you should be able to revert to the native Win7 feature by unchecking the integration checkbox. But it doesn't always work. You could try their tool at http://kb.acronis.com/content/26912 if you wish. But that doesn't always work either if the registry key ownership and permissions have been restricted to the SYSTEM "trusted installer."

Wow! Looks like just what I need. Will give it a whirl tomorrow. Bedtime now...

mark