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ATIH "Freaked Out" Last Night!

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Sorry for the subject/headline, but I don't know how else to describe what happened.

I had ATIH 2016 set to do several different backups every night, with each set to delete backups older than 7 days. It has been running fine for several days. When I woke up this morning and checked my backups, there were about six of each one that ran last night between midnight and 6:00 a.m. There were SO many, that my external hard drive got maxed-out. Then, when I went into ATIH to see what had gone wrong, all of my backup settings had disappeared. Gone! So I re-entered them and exited ATIH. Then I went back into ATIH and they had disappeared again, so I re-entered them again. Exited, and when I went back into the software all of my setting were, again, gone. I then ran the repair program. Re-entered ATIH, set up my backups, and exited. Went back into the software and the settings were...you guessed it...gone.

So I then did a complete/clean uninstall of ATIH, dowloaded the latest version, and reinstalled the software. So far, it appears to be holding my settings, but the real test will be if the backups are properly accomplished tonight.

Can anyone tell me what happened? Is this a common or known issue? Is there anything I can do to prevent it from reoccurring?

Thanks!

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I can't say for certain for this specific issue what the cause was, but there are a number of reasons that could cause this.  Bad blocks/sectors on a failing hard drive are often a problem.  I recently had an issue where my Acronis settings got messed up as my computer was in the middle of a backup and we had a power outage.  Something got corrupted in the Acronis database because of the ongoing backup operation that abruptly shut down and the only thing that fixed it for me was a clean install of Acronis as well.  I'd say this is not the "norm" though, but could happen in other situations as well.  I've used other backup software applications and have had this problem as well.  I like Acronis "A LOT" because it's saved me countless times and is relatively easy to use, but I'd never trust any backup solution 100% because there are so many hardwware and software variables and differences among users and their computers.  For the most part, tje baclk up schedules are pretty reliable, but it does seem like there is corruption at one point or another (not just in Acronis though).  I use it and rely on it, but I also take regular full disk images (using the offline bootable recovery media) as often as need be, just to be sure.  Sorry I can't be of more assistance in this case, but hopefully it will help with your future backup plans.

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Hello SoCalScott,

Thank you for your posting! Do you have any running anti-virus software on your PC? If yes, I would recommend to make sure Acronis related processes are allowed and trusted in your antivirus product.

Thank you!