TI Home 2009 - Manually Initiated Backups No Longer Initiate
First of all my apologies for not being a very sophisticated Acronis user. I run a backup every 7-10 days and (with one exeption where restoring an Acronis backup worked perfectly!) pay little attention to what is going on.
I am running a Dell XPS M1530 laptop with Vista Home Premium (all OS updates applied AFAIK) and back up to a USB-2 attached WD harddrive. I have been doing this for a couple of years now and this is a new problem.
I was going through my usual procedure of.
- Start up Acronis (external drive attached)
- Delete the oldest backup (I just keep the latest 4 backups)
- Start up the backup Wizard and select all partitions on the physical drive
- Select Create New Archive (all this is driven from the backup WIzard)
- Select Do Not Schedule
- Select Incremental BU (not sure this matters as all archives are new archives)
- Exclude no files
- No password selected
- No backup consolidation selected
- Add a comment describing the backup
- Click 'Proceed' (Run Task Now is selected)
Normally this kicks off a backup, but now things just sit for maybe 15 seconds and Acronis just 'exits' to the Task Review window (no backup).
Little to nothing has changed in my system since my last backup (when the described procedure worked as always) on 1/30/11. I have done this off a clean system boot. I downloaded the product update for this product and clicked on 'check for new updates to this product' and got a return of 'no updates available'. So I assume that my product as installed has all applicable updates.
Ideas on how I can resolve this? Thanks.
dave
You might want to consider re-installing 2009 over the top using the install/repair option.
If you want make your backups even easier, consider using the TI Home helper program "Chain2Gen" as listed in my signature below. Set it up once and it will do the deletion and retention for you. Only one task needed--either scheduled or non-scheduled. If you prefer the non-scheduled, you can create a desktop shortcut to initiate your backups manually at a time of your choosing.
If you have never checked your disk for errors, if is a good precaution to do occasionally but that nothing has nothing to do with your problem.
If you have not cleared your temp file in ages and ages, you might also want to do. A good free program for such is "CCleaner
Thanks for the suggestions.
I think that I found the problem. I had forgotten that I had done a bit of cleanup last week and removed a number of programs (including Acronis and Acronis Scheduler) from my startup list (assuming that this would not be necessary if I was manually starting all events). I put them back in the list, rebooted, and things worked fine.
dave