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Outlook Email backups - "The last backup has failed"

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Hello All,

I am running Acronis True Image Home 2011 Update 2 build 6857 with Windows 7 SP1 x64 and Outlook 2007 (non-exchange). My PSTs are password protected.

I've attempted to backup my email several times, but ATI reports "The last backup has failed." Upon doing some searching, I found the colored alerts under the tasks may not always be updated properly, so I checked the log.

I see the process task kick off, but it never completes, fails or anything. All the log entries are within a few seconds of each other.

Letting it run for a day, doesnt result in anything. I do see a 2 Gig backup file created on the destination partition, but I have nothing to indicate the backup was complete, or sucessful.

Has anybody else encountered this before?

Thank you in advance for any assistance provided.

Best Regards

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Please note partitions F & G are on an external eSATA drive. G (as does F), have ample free space.

Operation Microsoft Office Outlook started." 06/12/2011 12:49:35
Analyzing partition '0-0'..." 06/12/2011 12:49:59
Analyzing partition 'C:'..." 06/12/2011 12:50:00
Analyzing partition '0-0'..." 06/12/2011 12:50:01
Analyzing partition 'F:'..." 06/12/2011 12:50:01
Analyzing partition 'G:'..." 06/12/2011 12:50:02
Priority changed to High." 06/12/2011 12:50:02
Locking partition C:..." 06/12/2011 12:50:04
Create Incremental Backup Archive 06/12/2011 12:50:06
From:
My Application Settings
Compression:
Normal
Backing up to file: 06/12/2011 12:50:08
G:\My backups\Microsoft_Office_Outlook.tib

As you can see from the logs, the backup does not complete.

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Gavin,

There have been issues with using email backup. If you have support, file a ticket. A workaround could be:
- trying when Outlook is closed,
- doing a file backup of your PST instead of a email backup (this will not include your account settings unless you include the right folders in your AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook
- maybe your PST is included in an image backup

Hello Pat,

Thank you for the reply.

Most of my attempts have been with Outlook closed. I even try rebooting the machine and attempt backing up without ANYTHING else running.

I am able to backup the PST files seperately, but it's not really how the email backup function is supposed to work.

It sucks to have to pay for a support ticket because a function of the software does not work. Doubt they refund if it is found to be a software defect...

Are there any known limitations to email backup?

Thank you,
Gavin

Gavin,

Acronis will probably reimburse the PPI fee if there is a bug in the software.

There have been several problems with email, and some of them got fixed. So I am not surprised you have an issue with this. I didn't track them one by one, though, so I cannot be more precise.