Acronis stopped working / Support not available?!
I bought Acronis 2016 in December 2015 and it worked fine with Win10 all the time.
Today nothing works anymore. Message "Cannot create database" ("Kann eine Datenbank nicht erstellen" in German)
I downloaded the latest update and pressed "Repair". After message "Succefully repaired" I still get the same message.
The second really weird thing:
When I now want some support, it says, I don't have support, but I am allowed to look in the FAQ!
WHAT?
What happened to your products? Is this the way you want to sell and support it?
I was a user since many years and until Version 2016 everything was fine... but now..what?


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Have a look at the link below:
https://forum.acronis.com/forum/99525#comment-324836
I would start with step number 4 in the list first to see if that will solve the problem. After renaming the Scripts and Database folders restart your computer, open the True Image app and see if things are back to normal. If not then perform step number 1. Notice in step 1 the word task zap is a different color because it is a link to the task zap tool which you download and run.
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Thanks Pat L and Enchantech for your prompt answers,
Renaming the database folder worked.
Now ATI does not recognise my backups, but hopefully it would restore it when selecting the correct file.
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Yes, restores will still work if you use the offline recovery media (assumign the backups are good). You can also import the old backups into the Windows version of Acronis again by using the carat "\/" to the right of the + sign (see screenshot). If not critical though, I'd probably recommend just holding onto the old backups for posterity (for as long as you need to), and starting with fresh backup tasks and new backup sets if it's not urgent to reimport them and/or space is not an issue. Even if you import the older backups, you'll still have to reconfigure the backup task itself and backups will start with a new full again and I don't think the cleanup rules will apply except for anything backed up since the backup task was newly created (I may be wrong about that part - been awhile since I've done this myself and can't remember).
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Frank Pfeiffer wrote:Thanks Pat L and Enchantech for your prompt answers,
Renaming the database folder worked.
Now ATI does not recognise my backups, but hopefully it would restore it when selecting the correct file.
Frank - could you please select Help > Send Feedback and attach system logs. I will make sure Engineering will take a look and find out the reason of the database corruption.
Thank you! And sorry for the trouble.
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gaidar,
After fixing this in Feb, I did a complete new Backup and everything seems to work again.
Today the same thing happened that my database was not detected!
I renamed the directory again and was able to start Acronis.
I sent the feedback with logs as you requested...but especially from this kind of software I am expecting reliability!
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This is surprising to me. I am asking support team to get in touch with you and investigate the issue. This should not be happening.
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