Backing up to an external USB disc
I'm starting to feel rather stupid ....
I have a Backup Task that when run by hand works, but when it's run at the scheduled time fails. I get 2 emails, as below. I sort of assume this is because the task runs with different credentials, but how do I force the external USB disc to be mounted for those credentials ? This is on Windows 7 Professional
System Task is waiting for user interaction.
Description: My Disk Drives Backup
Information: Error occurred while creating the file.
Details:
Click Browse to specify volume location, Retry to try again, or click Cancel.
System Task execution failed.
Description: My Disk Drives Backup
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Dan

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Hi Ilya,
Just to let you know, this has fixed the issue, and my overnight backup has reported success
Thanks
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Dan
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Hello Daniel,
Thank you for reporting about the results.
I'm really glad that you have managed to fix the issue.
Please feel free to contact us again if you have any other questions concerning our products.
We are always at your service.
Thank you.
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Hi Ilya,
I'm still struggling with this. It appears, that the first run after a reboot works fine.... For example, I rebooted on Saturday, and the overnight backup (Sunday morning) ran fine, but this mornings (Monday) failed.
System Task is waiting for user interaction.
Description: My Disk Drives Backup
Information: File I/O error.
Details: Please insert the last media of the archive and click Retry to continue. Otherwise click Cancel to cancel the operation.
I'm Windows 7 X64.
I've tried running a pre command, and it appears to be running under the correct account (the USERNAME env variable is correct), but even my simple perl script can't list the external USB (or network) resources.
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Dan
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Hello Daniel,
In order to investigate the issue I need some additional information from your machine.
Could you please do the following?
1. Please cleanup all Acronis log files. The log files are located at C:\ProgramData\Acronis and have the .txt extension. Remove all .txt files available there.
2. Cleanup System and Application logs in Windows Event logs:
Right-click on My computer -> Manage -> unfold the Event Viewer item -> right-click on Application -> Clear all events. Clear events for the System item also.
3. Please make a copy of C:\ProgramData\Acronis\TrueImageHome\Database\archives.xml and save it.
4. Obtain AcronisInfo file.
Then please wait for the error to be reproduced. After that please obtain again:
- AcronisInfo file file;
- Copy of the C:\ProgramData\Acronis\TrueImageHome\Database\archives.xml file.
Have all these files at hand and send me a Private Message, I will create a FTP account to upload the files.
We are looking forward to hearing back from you at your earliest convenience.
Thank you.
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