Simple Backup & Cloning, Please
I need simple scheduled backups and I need the ability to clone a disc. That's it.
I do not need a baroque and arrogant product that thinks it owns my computer, adding context menu items that I do not care to figure out and hooking interfaces that I have no intention of asking it to use.
I was willing to live with all the dreck until now, when I have discovered that the dreck is making it impossible for me to connect my Sony T1 reader via USB.
I have looked at http://forum.acronis.com/forum/26638, which is a tedious read that leads nowhere. I have tried KB26062, which made no difference.
Is there some way to configure this contraption so that it meets my two simple requirements without trying to take over my computer?
==> Try this:
- run services.msc, and disable the Acronis Non-Stop Service, and Sync Agent service,
- to remove ATI clutter:
- in msconfig, startup items, disable the AcronisTrueImageMonitor.exe
- in ATI, click on the menu in the upper right, and disable all integration with Windows.
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Pat, these are all great, but doesn't this post highlight the larger issue? Folks are disabling services just to get a product that is manageable... Hay Acronis, are you listening? Get the core to work, then worry about the rest later...
Pat, thanks very much. Killing that stuff appears to have solved the e-reader problem. Time will tell.
Autoruns is showing me a lot more Acronis stuff, though. I killed a bunch of "shell extensions" on the theory that was just more arrogant software wanting to mess with my windows stuff. But I also see "CDP Helper," "storage file management," "snapshot API," and more. Lots of dreck-looking stuff working hard to slow my boot times and possibly to mess me up in other ways a la the USB problem. Can you offer any advice on what of this I need to keep? The only thing I want done is for my scheduled backups to run. One disk backup of C: and a file backup from D: Once a day to my NAS.
hhansard, I would put a slightly different spin on your comment. Of course the product should work, Making it baroque and dreck-draped militates against this. There is no excuse, for example, for a product at this stage of development to be messing up USB ports.
But the more fundamental problem is that it arrogantly takes over the machine and stuffs a lot of marginally useful things down the user's throat, things that 90% of users will never use. IMHO anyway. If they insist on packing all this dreck into the product, then the installation should permit the user to specify which of it he wants installed.
So I would say: "Hey Acronis. Get the core to work and get rid of the crapware." Oh, and did we talk about speed? This contraption is the slowest piece of software on my machine. It's ridiculous for a backup program to be such a slug.
Geo,
You may have an interest in this info. Also, the
28705: Grover's How to Backup 2012 from within Windows
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/28705
Also, the "ATIH 2012 - Getting Started" along the left margin under "Useful Links" is quite good.
Geo,
You can safely disable the following:
- in services, the Acronis nonstop backup, and sync agent. You have to leave the acronis scheduler service,
- in ATI, all the integration in Windows (click on the top right menu),
- in startup items, the TrueImageMonitor application.
Don't disable anything else. If you have tweaked or disabled Microsoft services, you might have crippled ATI.
Once ATI is running fine in clean boot mode, you can enable back all what you have disabled. If ATI doesn't work after, enable only half what you disabled and proceed through dichotomy until you have isolated the service or startup item that creates problems if any.
Grover, thanks. The scheduled backups that I need are already running smoothly. I had been ignoring the mess that Acronis made of my system until I discovered that they had destroyed USB access to my Sony e-reader. It took me a fair amount of internet sleuthing to discover that they were the culprit, then they had a patch that did not work. That's what tripped my trigger and hence the original post.
I do think you make an unintentional but important point when you show over twenty screens/actions to set up a backup. KISS, anyone?
Pat, thanks again. At this point I am in "let sleeping bears lie" mode. I might try killing a few more Acronis modules in the course of keeping my system clean (Autoruns after every Adobe installation, every few weeks otherwise.) but I just don't have the energy to do the proper binary search & destroy mission.
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