[Design Flaw/severe bug] Windows doesn't shutdown in time when UPS power failure occurs while a backup is running
Experienced yesterday the same issue I also have when shutting down or trying to restart the computer when a backup task is running. Acronis show the "Task are running, please do not shut down the computer" (or similiar i have a german license).
Yesterday we had a power failure (thankfully i was home during that time), so after 5 Minutes the UPS tried to shut down Windows as the battery got low and Windows will just not shutdown because of Acronis doing a backup.
So Computer lost power when batteries ran flat and I was really lucky that I had no data loss on my RAID6 due to unclean shutdown.
How stupid can one be to design a software that is meant to protect data (by doing a backup) and in the process putting the computers integrity at risk?
Is there anyway to make True Image Home 2012 just immediatly cancel the backup and shut down the PC? (Also on a user-triggered shutdown or reboot),
In my company we use Acronis 10 which show the same stupid behaviour. I cannot wait hours to use my computer again just because I need to shutdown or reboot the machine e.g. for updates, or loosing data just because the PC won't shut down properly during a power outage.
Is this fixed in any newer version of Acronis (as I think Acronis will not care about supporting "legacy versions" even though IMHO this is a design flaw / severe bug and at least in germany would fall under warranty)?
Any comment from Acronis officials on that?
Markus


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I see the point with 2012 being "old" (for me it just worked and does what I need) but you seriously want to say they didn't fix this huge design flaw in 3 major releases? I have a spare Acronis 2015 license (from the family pack), but obviously even there this is not fixed. That's also a way of making money on people...
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Markus, I can understand your frustration but if we are being honest here, Acronis are not making a lot of profit from users like yourself if you are still using ATI 10.0, 2012 and 2015 where I assume you have perpetual licences (buy once, use forever).
The Advanced option to "Stop all current operations when I shut down the computer" (or not) was only introduced in ATI 2017 and continued in 2018.
There are many other changes which have been made in the later versions, including for ATI 2018 the Acronis Active Protection function to protect your backup .TIB files against malware and ransomware, which is included in all product versions.
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