Mac partitions attached to the PC hang "Entire PC" backups in "Calculating time remaining"
I'm a new Acronis user. I backed up one "Entire PC" to an external, USB HD a few days ago with no problems. When I tried to backup another "Entire PC" to a different external, USB HD yesterday, it hung for literally hours shortly after it started displaying "Calculating time remaining". As others have reported, clicking Cancel brought up a dialog that asked if I wanted to stop the backup. When I said, yes, the dialog went away but the program stayed hung in the same place. When I rebooted the PC and restarted Acronis, it went right back to the same, hung state. I had to uninstall and reinstall Acronis to get it loose from that backup.
It just occurred to me a few hours ago that I backed up the first PC to a disk with only one, NTFS partition on it. The disk I've been trying to backup the second PC to had two, Mac OS-X HFS+ partitions in addition to the one NTFS partition. The Mac partitions don't show up in Windows Explorer so I thought they were completely invisible to Acronis. However, after I changed the backup source from "Entire PC" to "Disks and partitions" and explicitly selected just the PC's system disk partitions, Acronis backed it up with no problems.
I doubt if all the other people who've complained about Acronis hanging at "Calculating time remaining" also had Mac OS-X partitions attached to their PCs but other sorts of storage may result in the same behavior. If you run into that problem, try switching the backup source to "Disks and partitions" and select just the devices/partitions you really need to include.

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I guess my initial post wasn't clear. I realized that Acronis Windows' version would not backup the HFS+ partitions. I did not expect it to. It just surprised me that the presense of the partitions on the backup disk caused Acronis to hang forever without any explanation. My post was just a suggestion that Acronis might skip partitions it doesn't support or, better, tell the user about them in case the user didn't know they would not be included in the backup.
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SVanDee
Thank you for your reply.
Your feedback is quite sensible, but this feature has not been implemented, as your configuration is perhaps not among the most commonly used ones.
Nonetheless I will make sure to pass your comments to the development team and they will try to onclude a fix for this issue in the upcoming updates.
Once again, thank you for your input.
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