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What does occur when a back up fails?

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What does occur when a backup fails, does it continue where it left off or does it start again?

If a backup fails, will it create an orphaned file that will incur in consumption usage cost?

Then, back up fails again, creates another orphaned file, more consumption charges and so on?

Thank you.

 

 

 

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Jose, welcome to these public User Forums.

The answer to your question is: It Depends....!

It depends on what caused the backup to fail and whether it is a temporary issue that will resolve itself or not?

Some failures will cause Acronis to retry the operation and that may succeed or it may produce another failure.

All backup operations produce a log file which can hold information about any failures to help the user to understand what actions may be needed, i.e. the destination disk is full or is not found, etc.

Download a copy of the MVP Assistant log viewer tool and use this to look at the logs to see if they show any issues during the operation process?

The latest version of the new log viewer tool is at the link below.
New MVP Assistant Version 2.7.4 Available

If you have Disks & Partitions backups created on ATI 2020 or later using .tibx files, then look in the Backup Worker logs.

If you have Files & Folders backups using .tib files (or Disk backups from earlier versions using .tib files) or using Cloning then look in the Demon logs.

Other logs are shown by the MVP Assistant under the 'Active Logs' heading of the Log Viewer page of the Assistant, i.e. Media Builder.

The Schedule2 log contains information related to scheduled task but is one of the more difficult logs to read / work through.

The log files should be zipped to preserve their original file names if sharing in the forums and would need to be less than 3MB in size, otherwise you would need to share the zip file via a Cloud share service such as OneDrive, Dropbox etc.