GUI occassionally freezes
Background:
A few days ago I was trying to reproduce a problem I'm having where an FTP backup locks up Windows communication preventing creation of new connections. I succeeded. Old connections would continue to work, but the ATI FTP client can handle only 2GB transfers and I was trying to back up 1.7GB so it needed to create many, many FTP connections. So the FTP transfer hung up.
I tried to tell Acronis to stop the transfer. The GUI accepted the Stop request but then hung up. Eventually I rebooted out from under ATI.
After the reboot I tried changing backup options but again the GUI hung up. The backup's Options panel was never displayed. After the fact I realized that ATI was retrying the backup. (I let it run and again ran into communication problem. It took 2 hours 30 minutes the first time but only 1 hour 15 minutes the second time.) I rebooted again and deleted the backup definition before ATI could attempt a retry.
I don't know how the ATI GUI communicates with background ATI tasks but I would assume that, at the very least, a STOP should be communicated to the backup routine. When the GUI was hung up after I tried to display the backup's Options, could I have closed the GUI, reopened it, and entered a STOP? Or once the GUI had a pending request to the backup task (the options display) was it locked but for good?


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