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Acronis True Image Backup Failed

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I have tried several times to create a system backup to an external hard drive, and it has failed each time. I have been communicating with Acronis support, but it has been a slow process. It usually takes several days before I get a response. Is this normal ? Is there any support located in the USA, and is there a telephone number I can call ? Thank you

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Robert, welcome to these public User Forums.

I have never used telephone support with Acronis personally plus am on the other side of the pond in the UK.  Email communications can be variable until Acronis are waiting on you, when they tend to do automatic chasing for updates!

The forums may be a better source of help if you wish to share with us what you are trying to do in more details, and what issue you are seeing for the failure?

One initial comment:  if your system backup includes more than one disk drive, then try making separate backups of each drive.  When you create a new backup task, when it shows the Source panel as 'Entire PC', click on this and select Disks & Partitions, then select just one disk as the source.

Please download the MVP Log Viewer tool (link in my signature below) and use this to review the log file for your backup operation. This should provide more information on why you are seeing any notification messages?

Any screen images or log data you wish to share can be helpful.

I am about to go to some other backup solution as Acronis 2018 I had originally bought for previous Win 7 PC repeatedly fails trying to do backups. I don't trust Acronis any more and I've spent a lot of money at this point in pursuit of an automatic and differential  backup scheme I just can't get to. Very frustrated. I'm not willing to spend money on a new version because I'm seeing other commentators with later versions of Acronis who are having the same or similar issues.

To try to make Acronis work I've gone out and bought and had installed a 3rd new internal SSD drive so that the backup is from an internal drive to an external rather than external to external. There is no power saver turned on for the PC and I am now working with new only, external drives with their own power cords. I had begun with attempts to keep our main data files on an external drive and back up with Acronis from external to external--that went nowhere.

Acronis 2018 is having the external drive disconnection issues others cite here and on other pages. Last night my internal disc backups (over 1 Tb of data on 3 internal drives) failed. It limped along through repeated disconnections and auto reconnections which I discovered when I got up checked it in the middle of the night, and then stayed handy to prevent it opting to fail. I could actually see the multiple version files after each disconnect/auto restart appearing on my external destination drive. Then at the very end of the progress bar attaining full backup it just failed (some sort of message about an image not being available flashed by?) and deleted all the version files of the backup on the destination drive leaving me with nothing.

I then succeeded in backing up only the smallest internal C drive, and it failed backing up the second larger D drive (I thought perhaps I should do a seprate backup scheme for each internal drive.) I'm not even going to try backing up the third internal drive which is the largest, I've spent so much time and money on this.

I would go back to Windows own backup if they had differential backups. 

 

PS I am on a new Win 10 PC. 

Elaine, have you checked your Power Options settings, and in particular, the USB Selective Suspend setting?  If it is enabled, try changing it to be disabled.