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Acronis Archive keeps growing and the backups take much longer to run until eventually it fills the backup drive

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Hello,

I've installed Acronis B&R 11.5 on a couple of new servers and I've noticed that each time the backup runs it takes longer to complete (almost twice as long as the previous backup) and is using alot more of the Acronis Secure Zone disk each time (the compression seems to get worse each time it runs). I'm using a custom backup plan and have told the backup job that before it runs to keep only 1prior backup job. Casn someone help me to determine why the disk usage keeps going up and up? Right now the only way I seem to be able to fix this is to delete the archive and start over every week (I do two backups per week).

John Vroman
Alliant Energy

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Is there any background or manually started defragmentation software running between backups?

Are you aware that imaging to the SZ has the problem that if the drive dies, the images in the SZ will die also?

I had a similar thing happen a week ago. A coworker was doing a machine backup to an USB drive and Acronis actually managed to backup the connected USB drive onto the same USB drive (and failing eventually with a "disk full").

Can you make sure that Acronis is not accidently trying to make backups of the ASZ?

And in addition to Colin's concerns: ASZ messes with the boot process - that's the reason I don't trust it. Even less on a server.

There is no defragmenation software running that I'm aware of. My C: drive is on mirrored drives so I should be OK if one of the drives fails. The ASZ was partitioned off from the C: drive. How can I make sure that Acronis isn't trying to back it up also?

Never mind - I found where it was also including the Acronis Secure Zone in the backup of my disk 1 (I would have thought that since it was partioned off and not part of the C: drive that it would have ignored it). I have deselected the ASZ. Thanks for the help!!

look into one of the backups that are too large and see how many volumes are inside. If there's more than the volumes you expect, it might be the ASZ partition.