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[Design Flaw/severe bug] Windows doesn't shutdown in time when UPS power failure occurs while a backup is running

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Experienced yesterday the same issue I also have when shutting down or trying to restart the computer when a backup task is running. Acronis show the "Task are running, please do not shut down the computer" (or similiar i have a german license).

Yesterday we had a power failure (thankfully i was home during that time), so after 5 Minutes the UPS tried to shut down Windows as the battery got low and Windows will just not shutdown because of Acronis doing a backup.

So Computer lost power when batteries ran flat and I was really lucky that I had no data loss on my RAID6 due to unclean shutdown.

How stupid can one be to design a software that is meant to protect data (by doing a backup) and in the process putting the computers integrity at risk?

Is there anyway to make True Image Home 2012 just immediatly cancel the backup and shut down the PC? (Also on a user-triggered shutdown or reboot),

In my company we use Acronis 10 which show the same stupid behaviour. I cannot wait hours to use my computer again just because I need to shutdown or reboot the machine e.g. for updates, or loosing data just because the PC won't shut down properly during a power outage.

Is this fixed in any newer version of Acronis (as I think Acronis will not care about supporting "legacy versions" even though IMHO this is a design flaw / severe bug and at least in germany would fall under warranty)?

Any comment from Acronis officials on that?

Markus

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Markus, welcome to these User Forums.

ATI 2012 (and 10.0) are both very old products and have long been out of support by Acronis.

In ATI 2018 there are options available to handle the situation that you have described.

See the ATI 2018 User Guide: Computer shutdown section where it states:

Location: Options > Advanced > Computer shutdown

You can configure the following options:

  • Stop all current operations when I shut down the computer

    When you turn off your computer while Acronis True Image 2018 is performing a long operation, for example a disk backup to the cloud, this operation prevents the computer from shutdown. When this check box is selected, Acronis True Image 2018 automatically stops all its current operations before shutdown. This may take about two minutes. The next time you run Acronis True Image 2018, it will restart the stopped backups.

  • Shut down the computer after the backup is complete

    If you know that the backup process you are configuring may take a long time, you may select the Shut down the computer after the backup is complete check box. In this case, you will not have to wait until the operation completion. The program will perform the backup and turn off your computer automatically.

    This option is also useful when you schedule your backups. For example, you may want to perform backups every weekday in the evening to save all your work. Schedule the backup and select the check box. After that you may leave your computer when you finish your work knowing that the critical data will be backed up and the computer will be turned off.

The same option is also available in ATI 2017 and I can vouch that it works as my son has shutdown his computer when there has been an active backup task running and I have got an email notification to tell me the backup was cancelled for this reason!

I see the point with 2012 being "old" (for me it just worked and does what I need) but you seriously want to say they didn't fix this huge design flaw in 3 major releases? I have a spare Acronis 2015 license (from the family pack), but obviously even there this is not fixed. That's also a way of making money on people...

Markus, I can understand your frustration but if we are being honest here, Acronis are not making a lot of profit from users like yourself if you are still using ATI 10.0, 2012 and 2015 where I assume you have perpetual licences (buy once, use forever).

The Advanced option to "Stop all current operations when I shut down the computer" (or not) was only introduced in ATI 2017 and continued in 2018.

There are many other changes which have been made in the later versions, including for ATI 2018 the Acronis Active Protection function to protect your backup .TIB files against malware and ransomware, which is included in all product versions.