NonStop backup runs out of space without warning
After about four months NonStop backup suddenly failed having filled the backup disk. I had thought that automatic consolidation/clean up would ensure that this would not happen. By the time I got the error message there was no space to run a manual clean up or consolidation - or anything else useful!
Is there any way to prevent this failure re-occurring please? I cannot find any settings that seem relevant (I would have though that it should be possible to limit the size of the archive to ensure that working space would always be available).
Thanks for answers or ideas.
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Hello Everyone,
Thank you for joining us here on our Forum, please allow me to address your issues here.
For autoconsolidation issues, we kindly request certain diagnostic files and logs so that we may look into the matter directly by analysing the data entries of your Nonstop Backup tasks and their respective autoconsolidation operations. Please kindly send us the below following materials by reading through this Knowledge Base article and following the instructions there as to how to collect these materials:
- Acronis True Image Home 2012 System Report
- The metadata file by the name cdp.metadata, please see the above Knowledge Base article to locate this important file.
You may notify me as soon as you manage to collect the above materials so that I may generate an FTP account link for each of you to upload the necessary files to our FTP server.
Additionally, to manually cleanup the Nonstop Backup storage, you may follow this Knowledge Base article and see if that resolves your issue as a temporary workaround until we properly address your issue after having analysed the materials we kindly requested from your side.
You may also attempt to delete the cdp.metadata file and start your Nonstop Backup task from the product mainscreen, in case the cdp.metadata file has become corrupt. The metadata file in question will be recreated upon starting your Nonstop Backup task from the backup list in Acronis True Image Home 2012. However, there is a risk that this may affect your present Nonstop Backup archives with your files present in these archives, so please beware of this fact before proceeding with the deletion of the metadata that corresponds to your NSB archives. Lastly, if you are to send us the cdp.metadata with the System Report as mentioned, please collect these prior to making any amendments to files and folders.
Please let me know of additional questions or issues you may have, as I will be pleased to address them and assist you accordingly.
For any other questions regarding any of of our products or services please contact Acronis Customer Central, our Support Professionals will be happy to be at your service.
Kind regards,
Volkan
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Thank you. I have generated the requested reports and I am ready to submit them once you have sent me instructions on how to proceed.
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Hello Tom Sepka,
Thank you for your follow-up post.
We appreciate your efforts to collect the necessary logs and diagnostic files for our investigation. Please see your Messages, from the left-pane of our website, for your FTP link with which you may upload the files to our FTP server for our access.
Please kindly notify us of the successful upload so that we may investigate your matter accordingly.
Should you have additional questions or issues, please do not hesitate to let me know.
Best regards,
Volkan
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I'm seeing this issue appearing in the TIH 2013 forum. I can't recall what, if anything more has been done about this. Can someone from Acronis please update me with this issue?
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I am having the same issue. The backup runs out of space and it stops. I have to notice that it had stopped because he won't tell me. Then, if I select the option "CleanUp", I will tell the program to keep only the past week of backup. Well, I will never get back whatever space I somehow freed. I have no clue what that option does beside taking away old entries in the backup file, I say old entries in the log because since the whole size of the backup does not shrink I will assume that no data is delete, but only the entries in the log.
So what I have to do is go on the backup itself and DELETE physically the large backup file. Then I restart the backup.
I have to do this every few weeks. Any idea? Because as of now, it is pretty manual and, for the least, unsafe to delete all the backup.
Thanks,
Jean.
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