Operation in Progress/Disk Full

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I received the 'Operation in Progress message.....' on shutting down my PC two days ago.

48hours later and the PC is still displaying the same message so I decided to restart it.

I found a message in the Acronis log that the backup disk was full (which it was).

What should I have done? Why did Acronis not come up with an error message? Why does it allow me to shut down without any warning that Acronis is working?

I am using Acronis 2014 and am backing up my photos to a 2TB disk. The first backup was 1.4TB and I am waiting to see how it will handle the first incremental backup which should be about 10GB.

Peter

Sat, 08/02/2014 - 10:20
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The minimum backup space you need is about 2.5 to 3 times the size of a full backup. Here is the rational:
- First full backup (1x the size of a full backup)
- Add a few incrementals (.05x the size of a full backup)
- Add a new full backup that ATI will try to achieve BEFORE erasing the older full with its incremental (1x the size of a full backup).

If you use consolidation, it is even worse, because each time it consolidates it will create temporary local copies of the backups involved in the consolidation. Upon completion of the operation on the temp files, it will THEN erase the original files, rename the temp files and the rest of the chain.

For these reasons, the most efficient use of space is to use an incremental backup scheme, with a new full every now and then, keep only N most recent chain (ie a full AND its incrementals). The minimal set is "do a full every x incrementals" and "keep only 1 most recent chain".

Note that you should consider creating a partition with all your content on it. You can use EASUS home partition manager to do this. Then you would relocate your content on the new partition, and change the default location of the shell folders (if you wish to use the Desktop, Pictures, Documents, etc.) to that they are on the new content partition.
Then use some simple sync software to backup your content on the backup disk. You can use the Acronis sync feature, or Windows File History, or some third party tool.

IMO, it is way to risky to backup photos into a proprietary container. If your backup file gets corrupted, you will lose the entire backup! With sync software, your photos will be backed up as individual files.

In general, it doesn't make sense to use technology like Acronis to backup content that (a) doesn't change much (b) is already stored in a compressed file format (movies, pictures, videos, PDF, ZIP files, etc). It is however a great application to backup the system and applications!

Finally, consider redundancy of backups. For irreplaceable content (ie content you cannot purchase back at any price, like work of art) use some online backup technology and/or backup to a secondary disk that you take offsite.

Trust me, been there, done that.

Sat, 08/02/2014 - 19:35
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Any chance Acronis will address this fatal error condition?

Also- when you hard-reset, all those temp files get left around to suck up even more space, and cause the next backup to be even larger. After 5 or 6 of these confusing problems I had over 100G of temp files on my 256G SSD.

https://forum.acronis.com/forum/7558

If you know the disk is full, and you know it's at shutdown, what possible rationale can there be to hang that process? Why don't you just exit with an error in the log?

It's quite a surprise to me that this is still a problem in 2014. I've only used 2011, and keep looking to see if this is fixed, because this causes me endless problems. I'm not buying a new version until this is fixed.

Am I the only one who thinks this is a fatal design flaw?

Mon, 08/04/2014 - 04:32