ATI2016 backing up too many files and inventing backup tasks
I've been happily using ATI2009 for some years - simple and easy to run, and works, even though its responsiveness and reaction to errors left a lot to be desired. This is all under Win7-Pro, backing up files/folders from 4 different internal drives (one a night) to an external USB3 drive.
I've upgraded to 2016, and I'm running into all sorts of problems.
On one of my 2TB data drives there are two large files of 1.5TB in total, and both have been added to the exclusion list (they get backed up manually as and when necessary).
The remaining data is about 180GByte. However ATI2016 had produced 7 backup files of about 130GByte each (ie 2.1Tbyte), and taken 6 hours to do it before I had to stop it as the backup was affecting the computer's performance.
I don't know if the program is just repeating the task over and over again (the filenames are "D Drive_full_b1_s1_v1", "D Drive_full_b1_s1_v1-1", "D Drive_full_b1_s1_v1-2" etc.) or has decided to backup the excluded files - any attempt to examine the backup comes up with "an error occurred while opening the backup archive".
Yet, using the same rules, an overnight full backup with ATI2009 would be completed in about 60 minutes, and result in a single full backup file of about 120GByte.
The second problem is that ATI2016 has added a backup task all on its own. It wants to back up an unspecified VHD to a virtual-XP drive. If I delete the task, it simply gets added again.
None of this is helped by the fact that the ATI2016 UI is painfully unresponsive compared with ATI2009. Click on STOP, for instance, and nothing seems to happen - except the computer pretty much freezes for 20-30 seconds - and if I ckick on the backup of a small drive (20GByte) it takes nearly 3 minutes to display the contents (under 2009 it would take about 5 seconds).
I don't have a lot of time to spend analysing all of this - I expect something like ATI just to work and do its job. But I'm posting this here in the hope that someone might be able to say "ah yes, you've got this setting wrong".
Oh, and yes, I have tried to uninstall/reinstall.
