How to work around: can't backup a data folder from within Windows
Hello to all users of Acronis software,
I'm using Acronis True Image Home 11 under Win XP - so far everything's all right except for the scheduler thing, but the update seems to have fixed that.
However, there's a small, annoying glitch: Acronis won't finish making an image of a folder - it just goes on and on and won't ever finish up - sometimes at 63%, sometimes at 99% (no error messages). By a trial method, I have identified a specific subfolder that might be the source of problem (nothing special inside: docs, pdfs, htmls, txts and such like - doesn't seem to be any different from the other (sub)folders). When it's excluded from the image, backup ends successfully. The problem is irrespective of the target location.
Backup does work from within the bootable media, though, but I'd like to be able to use Acronis under XP, too, for convenience sake (using scheduled tasks).
So, theory suggests :) that it must be some Windows processes that are interfering - but what processes can be referring to data files and folder, and why just to this one? (no problems with other, seemingly similar, folders)
I would appreciate any suggestions.
Regards,
Dominik
You're making it unnecessarily difficult by using True Image to backup a data folder.
I guess that was irony? ;) I know Sync Toy, but you will surely know that irritation when you find out you can't get things under full control - especially when it involves products you've paid for.
I understand .... you will find that most of the regulars here use True Image for whole disk backups so you still get some use out of it, and use one or the other above mentioned programs for data backup.
Yeah... Thanks for the reply, anyway :)
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