Acronis Backup is broken - tips to get it working
Just in case it can save some other poor users a couple of hours of error searching and frustration, I want to share my finding after having spent MANY hours on trying to figure out why my backups suddenly stopped working and how to get them working again.
1. Protected key length
Up to about 20 characters, it seems to work find, go beyond that and problems start to occur exponentially. Using something close to 20 characters, maybe 9 out of 10 backup attempts are successful, using something like a 40 character one, and about 9 out of 10 attempts fail.
2. Latest version of Acronis is a train wreck it seems. Having spent many many hours on reinstallations, repairs, reconfiguration etc, I decided to downgrade to 40173 instead, and immediately noticed a sharp increase in number of successful backups. And transfer speeds also seemed to increase.
Now, these are my findings and of course I could be very unlucky, but at least to me, it is now a fact that the two statements above are true. Hopefully most other users don't have to go through the same problems as I have. I should add that this is on a very high end PC, so performance etc. should not be a reason for the problems.
Good luck!
Edit:
It should be noted that there might be security fixes etc in latest version, in fact, reading release notes there seems to be at least two, but when the alternative is, at least for me, a completetly broken version, the choice is simple.


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Thank you for sharing your findings. We have informed the team about your experience and they will take it into consideration for future updates and improvements. It's always helpful to have feedback from users to identify and address any potential issues. Thank you for taking the time to share your insights and hopefully, it will help other users who might encounter similar problems
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