ATI 2017 broken by Windows 10 latest update?
I have set my 4 notebooks to run ATI Partition backups automatically overnight, as has been done for many years.
over the last few days I noticed that the back-up jobs were not completing and found from the email logs
that the allocated times before close down were not enough. Now using ATI 2017. The notebooks (all running Win 10)
are various ages ranging from 10 to 2 years old and are a mix of Dell and HP.
When running several of the jobs manually, I found that there was significant corruption somewhere that caused,
for instance a "C" partion of 930GB, holding 129Gb of data, was suddenly being reported by ATI 2017 as having 4.4TB
to back up, and proceeded to do that, with an estimated time of 1d 22h. Needless to say, I killed the job after 1TB,
which is of course in excess of the physical maximum of 930GB, as well as way over the actual data of 129GB.
As a test on one notebook, I restored back to a ATI 2016 version, ran the Win 10 updates, and the problem was recreated, so updated to ATI 2017,
removed the saved backups and recreated the backups. As a test, I UNTICKED Sector by Sector backups, which I have always used for Partion backups, Problem solved!!
As part of my backups, I run a daily backup of my documents only. It is interesting to note that this File/Folder backup did not
appear to be affected. As an example one notebook was creating an ATI file of 1.1GB each day and that amount did not change with the
"growth" in Partition backups. However, the reported size (when running the backup), has grown each day it has been run.
For the past 3 days, the reported backup size within ATI has gone from 1.1GB (usual size) to 2.2GB the next day and the third day
it was run is now showing 3.2GB reported size. It should be noted that actual ATI backup file size has not changed significantly,
only with the addition of new documents, so it would appear that some corruption still exists.
I then examined the recent history of changes to all the notebooks, and found that the only changes were the Microsoft updates for
28 Oct 2016 (Western Australian date & time)
All notebooks were checked and no virus/malware was found, which is not surprising as all notebooks are updated/checked maually
twice a week as well as their resident components running continuously.
All notebooks are now running ATI 2017 with freshly created backup jobs(not using Sector by Sector), all the latest Win 10 updates and are all running ATI 2017 smoothly, apart from the File/Folder problem mentioned earlier.
It seems that there has been some interaction between the latest Win 10 updates and Acronis 2017.
It would be great to know the real cause of this problem, rather than relying on workarounds.
Thanks Ross
