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Upgrade to TrueImage 2019 not working, cannot get support

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I've used Acronis TrueImage for many years and on several computers. I was running TI 2017 on a Windows 10 PC and found that it caused a very long startup for a newly installed program. It seems that TI was hooking into the program's process and making countless system calls to access an acronis log file !!!

With some reservation, I purchased TI 2019, uninstalled 2017, and installed 2019. The installation went smoothly and the slow startup problem was gone. However, TI fails when I try to make a backup.

I back up to a NAS, the same one that I use for other computers running Acronis and the same one that I used for this computer when it had TI 2017.

I normally run Acronis manually and turn off the scheduler. I am trying to start with a full backup. At first everything appears to be running normally. During the backup I see that Acronis has created a file on the NAS. It takes about an hour for the operation. But at the end, there is some error and the process repeats. This fail-repeat cycle happens many times; usually I just stop it.

Since I just purchased the product it seems like a good question for support. But I cannot access support. It seems that I had an earlier account under a different email, the one that I used to access this forum. But when I purchased 2019, I used a different email. Any attemp to log in or create an account using the new email fails. In some cases the website says that there is no account with this name. In other cases it says that the email has already been taken. It also prevents me from moving the new license to the earlier account.

In order to try to resolve the problem I found the log file and see some errors, but there is not enough detail to lead me to a solution. I will post the error log in case some human at Acronis is interested to help.

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George, the log file shows that you have a Microsoft VSS issue which is preventing your backup task from running correctly.

04/08/2019 03:33:48 :481  Operation: Backup
04/08/2019 03:33:48 :481  Priority changed to Low.
04/08/2019 03:33:48 :684  Create Backup Archive From:
To file:
\\nas1\win-nas\P8C\My partitions\P8C.tib
Compression: Normal
04/08/2019 03:33:48 :700  Pending operation 173 started: 'Creating partition image'.
04/08/2019 03:33:52 :606   Writing full version to file: P8C_full_b1_s1_v1.tib
04/08/2019 03:33:55 :262  Pending operation 173 started: 'Creating partition image'.
04/08/2019 04:23:54 :432  Pending operation 173 started: 'Creating partition image'.
04/08/2019 04:24:05 :979  Pending operation 173 started: 'Creating partition image'.
04/08/2019 04:24:08 :994  Error 0x101f6: Unable to create volume snapshot
04/08/2019 04:24:10 :307  Error 0x13c0005: Operation has completed with errors.

In the detailed messages for the log, further information is shown:

error 0x70021: Unable to create volume snapshot
error 0x10c449: Failed to lock the volume snapshot.
error 0xfff0: The media is write protected

Please download the Acronis VSS Doctor tool (link below) and run this as Administrator then select to let the tool try to resolve any issues identified.

For your Acronis account email / serial registration issue, please send a private message to the Forum Moderator Ekaterina Surkova | Acronis Forum who can try to help you with that matter.

Please note that these are public user forums and the MVP's etc are users like yourself, not employees of Acronis.

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Hello George,

If you still experience issues with accessing the account where Acronis True Image 2019 is registered, please send me the first two blocks of the serial number (16 digits) in a personal message and the email address you suspect it should be registered to - I'll check.

Ekaterina - I was finally able to reset the password and post my log for tech support. It seems that Acronis uses a third party mailer that is frequently associated with spam, and password change requests were lost even though I whitelisted acronis.com.

Steve - thank you for taking the time to review and suggest VSS doctor. I downloaded and ran it. It found one issue related to the amount of space used for shadow copies. I let it fix it, and VSS doctor now gives a clean result. But the backup still fails and still refers to VSS, but also a permissions problem. I was able to send the log file to tech support.