Acronis 2013

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For so many years I have been using Acronis as a backup tool. Over the years it had many 'features' that I had to get used to or find a workaround for it. But basically I could get Acronis do its job the way I wanted it (almost).
Begin of 2013 I decided to upgrade (again), now to version 2013. I have been using it on two different PC's (laptop and desktop, both WIN7, backup location on WD MyBook Live NAS). In short I found out that:

- the 'backup engine' is still reliable and good (and faster than older versions)
- the handling of backups is as buggy and not user friendly as can be

I have been struggling for months to have my backups automated such that they need no further attention. But how can I trust access to previous backups when I have sooooooo many problems with validation? And I think in many cases there's nothing wrong with the backup files, it is just Acronis who 'thinks' the backup is corrupted. Today I had once again a case of Validation Error (could not find the backup file, although it is right there). It looks like something goes wrong with Credentials once a while...

I have been looking at several alternatives and found that Macrium might be a good alternative with respect to price, performance, features, support and reliability. I tried it a couple of weeks and it all looks good enough so far. Only the file naming and numbering is not what I want.

Any thoughts or advice from people who just got disappointed in Acronis like me and decided to move to an alternative? Will I get similar problems or will it be a relief?

Jan

Sat, 12/28/2013 - 10:52
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boomklever,

I thought you might be interested in these comments. Not sure they necessarily apply but the content may be interesting.

1. I avoid the use of consolidation. In my opiniion, this increases the possibility of errors and The program has been known to have lost numbering due to the consolidation.

Instead, I prefer the automatic cleanup backup scheme. Look at link 2 below and view the illustation 11-Inc, or 11-Dif, or 11-full. Any of these 3 backup schemes emply straight deletion of old files when the user designated quota is met. This method of cleanup involves keeping X number of recent version chains and x is met, the revoloving deletion begins on a rotating basis. This method has worked for me in the past and works for me with 2013 and 2014.

2. I do not permit myself to edit a backup task and the results are usually not what is expected. Instead, if a task need configuratin changes, I stop using the task. Create a new task and pont the new backups into a totally new sub-folder. No mixing of backup files from multiple tasks. I run both manual and scheduled tasks.

3. One of the most frequent causes with backup issues which involves NAS or network drives is the absolute correct path. Acronis is veryvery touchy about that and sometimes Windows will find disk when TrueImage will not and all is needed is a path whiich Acronis likes.

Note the extracat from MVP Tuttle. This may or may not be pertinent.
An extract from MVP Tuttle:
"When using ATI with a network drive, use a UNC path to your NAS device for a backup destination, not a typical friendly "mapped" drive. e.g.
\\192.168.2.25\My Backups\

It should also be possible to use a UNC path that includes server name rather than IP, such as
\\server1\My Backups\

ATI will not automatically detect a NAS drive. Once you start typing the destination path (click "Browse", type in the "File name" field), you will be prompted for a username and password. You must use enter the username and password that has permissions to access the NAS share you are saving to.

Many users have issues with NAS, not because of True Image but because the router gets overloaded with data throughput and cannot keep a consistent enough connection with the NAS for True Image to image or restore. Certain models of router and known to suffer from this issue.

A user shared this:

From the "Destination drop down list in the backup dialog box" choose "Browse ..."
In the "Browse for Destination" dialog, enter the UNC path for your drive in the "File name:" input field.
If the "Authentication Settings" dialog does not pop up, click the blue arrow button to the right of the "File name:" input field so it does pop up,
Enter the login info for your share"

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4. boomklever,
This link may not apply but I thought what it took to fix the issue might get you thinking about what could be at play in your setup.
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/49880#comment-154215
solving a samba share problem
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http://forum.acronis.com/forum/47457#comment-154580
8.1 enterprise and domain acct. isses.

5. None of this may apply but it is a start in fixing your issues. The development of 2013 appears to have stopped when 2014 was released so any issues 2013 had continues to exist unless 2014 corrected the problem ion the 2014 release. I know you just upgraded to 2013 but I would encourage you to upgrade to 2014 if the price is right.
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