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I have ATI2016 running on 3 PCs in my home and use the "Sync" function between them for around 10 or so files.  This involves synchronising between the local machines and the Cloud.

I have encountered a problem which has repeated a couple of times.  The symptoms are that after everything has been working for several months I will without any obvious reason get a "Sync has failed to complete" message.  When I look at the "Sync" page in ATI2016 there is a red cross and if I try to look at the files on the Cloud server I get a message that the server is not available.

When this first happened I assumed that the problem was due to a temporary outage at the server but even after waiting a few days the problem remained.  I then noticed that I could access another different "Sync" job I had set up - i.e. there was no problem with the server for that one. 

Eventually I decided that something must have got corrupted in the problem sync job that was preventing it accessing the Cloud.  I had already learned from these Forums that for some reason you cannot delete the first sync job you set up after ATI is installed (this first sync job is called the "default sync").  Since the problem sync job in question was the "default sync", I decided my only option was to uninstall ATI2016 and start again.  (By the way, I had already checked that simply carrying out a "repair" instead of an uninstall did not solve the problem.)

After the reinstall the problem went away (for another few months).  However I was obliged to re-create every one of my "normal" backup jobs after the reinstall which was a complete pain.

So finally my question, has anyone else had similar problems with synchronisations suddenly running into problems like this?  And if you have, any advice on a less painful solution?

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Jeremy, whilst I do not personally use the Sync function of ATIH 2016 and therefore cannot answer your specific question in this regard, I would recommend that you download and use a copy of the Service Log Viewer application that one of my fellow MVPs has created.

This can be used as either a standalone program, run on demand, or can be installed.

The key benefit in this instance is that it can allow you to look more closely at the SyncAgent logs to determine if there are any more specific messages related to the type of sync failure that you have experienced.

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Hi Jeremy,

If the problem keeps coming back afer a few months and can be repeated, I would be inclined to think it could be a bug - either in the appication or the cloud.  I would definitely submit feedback about this (please do so through the applicatoin and/or your account).  I think you would have a valid support case here as well, but can't speak for Acronis on that.  Wouldn't hurt to contact them to check though - especially if the issue is ocurring right now and can be verified by them.  You're the second person to report this type of behavior today.  The other post is:

https://forum.acronis.com/forum/116260

Seems like you both have a similar issue so it could be problematic on the Acronis side and I'd hope they would want to look into this a bit more.

Jeremy, there is an issue with "default" synchronization job, titled "Sync". You can help in the investigation if you contact us at http://www.acronis.com/support/. While there is no option in graphical user interface to drop this sync job, we can delete it by request. The rest of synchronization tasks, those that you have created on your own, will continue running successfully.

Regards,

Slava