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Acronis Backup compatibility with other backup solutions: Microsoft VSS conflicts?

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I noticed some incompatibility between Acronis and Synology Active Backup for Business (the latter also uses Microsoft VSS).

Unsurprisingly, both backup software cannot be run simulatanuously. The first on to run seems to prevent access to creating snapshots by the second.

Both software can be run sequentially, but ATI interferes with the backup creation of the second by triggering a new full backup. Synology Active Backup for Business uses Changed Block Tracking to run incremental backups after the initial backup. However, if an Acronis backup is run in between Active Backup for Business backups, the next Active Backup for Business backup will be a full again.

Active Backup for Business doesn't interfere with Acronis backups apparently. If an Active Backup for Business runs between 2 Acronis backups, the following Acronis backup seems to a normal incremental.

Has anybody observed a simlar situation with some other backup software?

 

Note: switching Acronis backup to Acronis Snapshot resolves the problem, but the documentation advises against using Acronis snapshot for Windows systems backups.

 

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Pat, thanks for sharing your findings.  I have never tried the Synology Active Backup for Business and am not even sure if I have it on my Synology DS215j NAS, so haven't come across this issue myself.