Empty Folders

Hello mike_coreit,

Thank you for using Acronis software.

I hope I have understood you correct. You want to use the ‘Backup now’ option and use every time the same vault destination. Of course, in that destination Acronis writes Meta information, that left even you delete the vault in the console.

There is no need to delete the vault manually. If you want to reuse the vault destination, then you can do this.

If you want, you can use the option: Simplified naming of backup files. In this case, the Meta Information is not used and handling of backup archives is simpler then.

Let me know if you need additional help please.

Thank you.

I want it so that when I boot up my PC it won't keep recreating these folders that were used for previous backup jobs.
The above information doesn't solve this.

Hello mike_coreit,

Thank you for your reply.

Every backup destination that is used for any kind of backup will create a personal vault. That you can find under vaults -> personal vaults. You also be able to create a personal vault there manually and reuse it. See the online help for more information.

Please let me know if you have additional questions.

Thank you.

I have not found an answer for my situation yet.
I suppose a different work-around would be to clear the list of backup jobs from Acronis when the system boots. Is this possible?

Your link to the online help doesn't work.

Hello mike-coreit,

Thank you for your quick reply.

Have I understood correctly? You want to make only backups using the 'backup now' feature. However, you did not want to see any used setting after restarting the software. Therefore, the settings will be stored. You can also reuse any done task by starting them from the task list.

Another way for creating backups in your environment could be the command line utility. You can create a batch file starting these commands.

Let me know if you need additional help please.

Thank you.

 Hello Mike,

I would like to give you a hint how you can create backups with Acronis Backup and Recovery and have the automatically created personal vault deleted afterwards.

Every time you create a backup, the metadata is created for it, and the information about the specified location is saved into program log (both for backups created from console and command line). The only way to keep the vaults clean is to cleanup the information about the created location. Altogether you can combine it in a batch file as in the following example:

acrocmd backup file --include="c:\test.log" --loc="d:\temp" --arc=backup_file --plain_archive -- cataloging=fast
del C:\ProgramData\Acronis\BackupAndRecovery\MMS\Locations\*.* /q
del d\temp\Catalog /s /q
del d:\temp\*.xml /q

First line specifies the backup procedure for a file backup. Parameters --plain_archive and --cataloging=fast would be useful in your case. About these parameters and disk backup command you can read in the command line reference book.

Second line leads to the folder C:\ProgramData\Acronis\BackupAndRecovery\MMS\Locations where metadata about vaults is kept (C:\Dokuments and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Acronis\BackupAndRecovery\MMS\Locations for Windows XP). Cleaning up this folder will result into zero vaults in the console. You can perform this using the del command.

Additionally, you can delete the metadata and catalog created along with the backup file in the same location. As a result, running this batch file will only keep a backup file with the name backup_file.TIB in the destination folder (d:\temp) keeping the vaults and backup plans in the software clean.

Adding the variables and their specification to the batch file, you can get a script that will request the source, destination and the file name.

I hope this fulfills your expectations. If you need some additional information, let me know.

Thank you.

I could probably modify a single task but I would imagine this would mean moving a lot of files around before/after each backup runs.
It seems like a lot of effort to have to script the interface just to prevent some folders from appearing.

Edit: I have settled with a somewhat reliable solution for this empty folder issue.
I set all Acronis services to the manual startup type. I then rely on a batch file to clear the \MMS\Locations\ folder and start each Acronis service.