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ATI WD2021 - nonstop backup

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HI,

Instead of RAID-1 setup (INTEL RST) I changed to 2 seperate disks in my system. The reason: change to SATA because the 4GB's are not recognised as RAID setup by my BIOS (but are within Windows with GPT).

These 2 WD's (4GB each) contain only data (D: /E: photo/video/docs etc), no OS.

 

So I change to one "working" HDD, and a second "backup" AKA " raid alternative" . Nonstop should take care of the "mirror" function.

But after starting the nonstop backup at jan 23, I get a huge amount of files. I don't notice any " consolidation"  of the *.data files and the *.tib file stays at 0kb size.

I started the nonstop at jan 23th, 9 days ago. So I expected to get some *.tib files after one week, or at least today, the new month.

The amount of files are growing: as we speak 2255 files (9 days). I also leave the computer unattended, to be sure ATI does not skip jobs due to high usage.

 

So y question is: is this normal behavior of the non-stop, or is it failing in consolidation/ creating tib-files?

What kind of behaviour do I have to expect?

Regards,

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Frank, welcome to these public User Forums.

See KB 2201: Support for OEM Versions of Acronis Products which applies to all OEM versions of ATI supplied with hardware purchases.

See the ATI 2021 User Guide: Using Acronis Nonstop Backup - which describes how this feature works including consolidation etc.

Hi Steve,

At the WD site I don't see any information regarding this issue.

The ATI2020 help - I've seen that and read it a hundred times.

If the result should be the same as cloud backup, then nonstop does not act that way. I should have at max (20/h+24/day+1/wk+1/month) = 46 backup files. For this period (9 days) I have 2255 files.

No *tib files.Only *.data. So it seems nonstop does not "consolidate".

What causes this behaviour?

 

I suspect that at some stage Acronis changed the way non-stop backup works. When I first used it I got a similar results to yours but much later it produced *.tib file instead. The former is reminiscent of PowerQuest DataKeeper. It is possible that the WD OEM version of ATI uses this older architecture. If I recall correctly, in Explorer right click on a file, and there is Acronis entry for recover file. I suspect this architecture was last used in ATI 2019 or 2018.

Ian

Hi Ian, thanks for your reply.

 

As I understand well, I will have to be patient until the software "decides" to consolidate. A bit pitty, cause it does not sound as a reliable backup method if the used methodes are nog clear.

The right-click trick does not show the Acronis option (except the option to archive it, not te view/open it).

In the mean time I'm going to test another tool (sounds like Ah-my.....) on my laptop, see how that one acts.I'll be back later then ;)