List of backups - possible improvements
Hello,
I just realized that my backups did not run for two months, there was no notification, and it was also not obvious from opening the Acronis TrueImage UI. Maybe there is quite a bit of room for improvement in this UI:
1) The information shown in the list of backups is extremely wanting. You cannot even see whether the last backup ran, whether it failed, there is no marking, error status etc. It would really be good to clearly see in this list both the outcome of the last execution, if an error has occured, and also the date of last execution. At the moment, there is actually an awful lot of empty space in this UI - some UI designer may find this pretty, but it's really not helpful at all for someone who wants to make sure his data is safe,
2) At the moment you cannot sort the list by the last backup execution date. That's also not helpful for monitoring purposes. I run a backup scheme with a weekly backup on one external disk, and three jobs on rotating disk drives, two of which are stored off-site. The sorting by date of creation or modification of the backup does not help in any shape or form.
3) To make things worse, if the email notification does not work, you seem to have no chance whatsoever to find out the backup does not run. It does not even seem to be flagged as an error if the computer cannot send mails.
It would really be good if Acronis had a slightly more expressive UI. I hope these comments would help.

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