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ATI 2017 NonStop Backup Using Destination from an Old/Deleted Backup Definition

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I finally got NonStop backup working to a network drive on June 16th.  Due to lack of space, I deleted the old NonStop backup definition and backup files, and created a new NonStop backup pointing to a larger drive.  Everything seemed to be going well.  However, the older drive filled up on June 18th - TrueImage was writing to both the old and the new drive, even though there was no NonStop backup definition pointing to the old drive.  I stopped NonStop backup, cleaned up the old drive again, restarted TrueImage and restarted NonStop backup on June 19th - again, TrueImage wrote to both old and new drive.  I prevented TrueImage from filling up the old drive by making the old destination folder read-only.  

I downloaded the Log Viewer - I can see activity to the old drive up to 16th when I deleted the original destination.  The log entries for June 18th and 19th only show activity to the new drive, yet I watched the old drive being filled up with NonStop files today.

I am running TrueImage 2017 on Windows 10 Home 64-bit.  I have not tried rebooting my laptop to see if that gets rid of the old NonStop backup definition.  

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks, Norbert

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Norbert, if your NonStop Backup is still finding your old Network location then this would suggest that information related to this task is still present in both the Acronis Database and also the Windows Registry, and you would need to clean out both to stop this from happening.

The easiest way of cleaning out this information from the Database would be to remove the NSB task which will remove the information from the database files then once done, create a new unique NSB task with a name that you have not used before.

To clean out the information in the Windows Registry, please see the steps shown in KB 58004: Acronis True Image 2016: Troubleshooting Issues Related to NAS Credentials