Passwords
I just bought Acronis 2017, installed it and everything went fine. But it won't let met change my password from the one that was generated by the software. I did a copy and paste of the generated password and when I try to change the password it says my current password is invalid. I have no idea on how to change my password now, and the one that was generated for me is no longer in cut and paste memory. Help ... please.


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Once a backup is run you cannot set or change a password. The password is forever static in each backup job. Why, you may ask, that seems unfriendly or dumb. The reason is the password info is stored in the backup tib files as part of the internal meta data. This cannot be modified in the existing backup files so if you could change the password you would have to remember several to recover one job.
long story short... set the backup password from the beginning. If you want a password, copy the backup settings and create a new backup task and set the password before you run it.
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