Why do I need Monitor running and can I stop it ?
I only use True Image manually, and always kick off a full disk backup, disk partition option.
I do not need any form of monitoring and do not want any scheduled tasks runnign etc etc..
Yet when Laptop starts I get occasional long delays whilst Acronis is runs some sort of check or update or process that I cannot track down and I also note that there are 2 instances of TrueImageMonitor.exe runnign at all times...
How do I stop these or do I have to resort to AUTORUNS to remove them from system start?
Cheers
Thanks Pat
I'm slightly concerned when you say "you will loose the ability to control running Acronis True Image tasks" ... what tasks exactly ?
From my perspective, myonly interaction with Acronis is as a manual utility. I will manually start a backup. When I do this it will be a complete disk partition backup. So the only 'task' I would ever want to interact with is that single job.
At the moment Acronis does some mysterious processing on an occasional basis when I boot my laptop. Whilst Acronis is doing this, the laptop is rendered unuseable. No amount of trying to open up a monitor or anything to find out WHAT it is , has ever worked. By the time Acronis opens anything for me to view , the task has finished and the laptop is returned.
I probably need to fish around in a log somewhere and find out what its been doing. All I know is that it KILLS my laptop completley. NOTHING runs at all until Acronis has finished doing whatever it is it is doing. Certainly nothing I want it to do.
Any views on this ?
Cheers
Kev.
When ATI runs a backup, you have an icon in the system tray. You can interact with this Icon to launch ATI and other things. Without TrueImageMonitor you loose this interaction.
I suspect ATI is running some missed task on startup. Download the Acronis Schedule Manager and ZAP your schedules.
Even if your backups tasks themselves don't have a backup schedule, it is possible the backup task is set up with a default validation schedule. This is the case with ATI 2011. Users set up a backup task and ATI automatically schedule a validation (without the user's explicit knowledge). Then you have options to run missed tasks at startup, etc.
Pat
Thx... sure enough Scheduler exposed a bunch of 'scheduled tasks' that I didnt schedule.
This software is increasingly bothering me.
What company allows its software developers to deploy s/ware that requires a user to goto CMD levels and run exe's just to mange the software and TAKE BACK control of their own machine. It is beyond comprehension IMHO, and I've been in software business for 25 years..
But .. thx for the pointers.
Truth is, this is prob the last upgrade (2011) I will take from Acronis and will switch to another provider in future.
I've spent far too many hours fighting with the Acronis software rather than just using it to backup my system.
Over half the backups I've made subsequently get reported by Acronis as 'corrupt'.... which fills me with so much confidence !!! :-)
And my disk is fine. No bad sectors on source or targets etc...
anyway.... rant over :-)
Thx again.
Kev.
FYI
Found out the auto schedulers created, were doing some form of 'backup validation' process.
The task zap works fine... and I'll probably put it into the boot process in someway to clear.
And..... true to form.... so far 4.5 hours of using acronis and still not managed to create a single back up. What has changed ? I was daft enought o accept the latest 'update'. Ho hum !!! Just confirms what I've said earlier.
THe backup procedure fails with errors (real useful meassage that) and I've changed varous settings but all to no joy
Acronis tag line "fast, Easy and secure backup for everyone" just taunts me.. Clearly I dont qualify :-) :-)
Plain simple striaghtforward Disk Partition backup should be a one click task...... not 4.5 hours of *"$£&("*£&%" around trying to fix problems.
Yawn..
Yes, everytime you create a new backtup task, ATI automatically, by default, create a monthly validation task. At least that was the case with the builds 6696 and 6597. With 6857 it looks like Acronis has taken the default out; did they?
What errors do you get when you try a disk and partition backup?
Yes, everytime you create a new backtup task, ATI automatically, by default, create a monthly validation task. At least that was the case with the builds 6696 and 6597. With 6857 it looks like Acronis has taken the default out; did they?
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Hope so, this was causing the "can't shutdown computer because of a running process" or some such message.
Yes, I am wondering. I don't see it by default on my system after update, but I don't know whether this is because it is part of my previous default settings or part of the new default out of the box...
I don't think it's changed. Here's what I get right after installation in a Win7 VM with no tasks created:
This is the same default as the previous build - validation once a month is enabled by default.
Mark, you are right. I just uninstalled it from my VM and darn,... the default is still there...
Having 'zapped' the schedule using schedmgr as advised.....
soemthing somehwere puts a task back in place...
ie.
GET LIST shows ...
1-1 '..pathdetails....' \trueimagemonitor.exe /shutup
I zap it.
Get list shows NOTHING ...
reboot laptop..
and get the following message window to pop into the bottom right 'task bar'
"Operation has Failed. Backup validation Task execustion failed. Description:See operation log for details. "
Is this something I should care about ?
The backups I have have been validated separately.
Schdmgr shows the '1-1 tak is back.
How can I stop this auto scheduling ?
Ignore previous post...
Somehow the True image Monitor had restarted and was in boot list...
Disabled it and can now boot without errors or 10 minute delays and lockout of my Laptop.
What a fun weekend... not.