so many issues! cludgy, slow, creating direcories on source drive, not able to update.....
OK, I service medical equipment. Part of that is to back up equipment hard drives. Usually I remove the drive from the equipment and hook it up with a USB adaptor and back up it to a external drive. When I start Acronis I get a long list of back ups. Frankly I hate that. It's confusing and it picks up locations I don't care about. I usually creat a new one with a date in the name rather than use an existing for a back up. While I'm trying to creat a new back up Acronis is stalling and not responding because it's going out all over every where looking for back ups I don't want to look at.
But the biggest problem I'm now seeing is Acronis is creating folders on my original drive of previous destination folders. In other words I'm getting folders such as "My Back ups" "equipment back ups" " ultrasound back ups" "xray back ups" IN PARTITIONS ON THE SOURCE DRIVE! That is not aceptable for medical diagnostic equipment.
OH! and the file naming. Excuse me?! I normally use the Asset Number of the equipment and date I'm backing up but what does Acronis do? It uses the model number of the drive! Great! Means you have to go in and manually rename the file after making a back up. I've got a hundred pieces of equipment with multible drives, just try figuring out what back up goes with what machine by the model of the drive! In previous versions it would ask you what you want to name it. Who's idea was that!?
Anyway there are so many issues with 2015 I don't know if going to 2017 is worth it. Just seems to get more and more bloated. I'm thinking of just going back to Clonezilla!
I've never had to use the ATI Rescue Media for restoring drives. I have seen Acronis getting fatter and bloated and figured that is was going more corprate. Acronis is getting a bad reputation out here for home and service use because of it. To bad you don't have a lighter version for home or individual use. Seems it would open the door to more sales. Do people really use their smart phone to back up their corprate systems? Now it looks like your moving to subscriptions rather than a product. 2008 was great. I was perfectly happy with the 2010. 2012 started getting wonky. 2015 is frustrating. I haven't got time to investitate 2017. After nine years I guess I'll have to find another product. Any sugestions?
You keep saying "you". I do not work for Acronis. This is primarily a user-to-user help forum. We MVPs are customers/users, we are not Acronis staff and we are not paid.
ATI can be purchased either as a traditional installable application, one-time purchase, which gives users a certain limited time right to updates. It can also be purchased as an ongoing subscription, whereby users are automaatically updated to the latest version.
You may not have yet used ATI Rescue Media, but you would need it for a disk/partition restore. I'm just suggesting it as an option for creating backups in your case, as it would solve some of your issues. I often perform my backups from the ATI Rescue Media. If you prefer to rant, it would be better to send your comments to Acronis, because likely their staff will not see them in this thread.
The reason why you are seeing folders being created on your original drives is very simple, this is down to the way you are using the product and managing your backups.
Acronis keeps track of backup tasks and files created in its internal database, this includes details of the drive letter and folders where files were created.
Each time that you attach a new drive to backup, you are most likely reusing a drive letter used by a previous drive, and probably one used to store backups. If you are also allowing Acronis to use some of the default names for backups like My Backups, then you will match with information held in the database and Acronis will recreate folders because it expects to find these on that drive letter because the database shows this.
You should delete your backup tasks immediately after making a successful backup of a temporary attached drive, or if you don't delete the task, then you should do a Valdiation for the task before connecting another drive that will use the same drive letter. Validation will present an error message for each file listed in the database which can no longer be found, you should take the option to Ignore all missing files to reconcile the database to the current state of files.
If you want to avoid this default behaviour of Acronis then do not use the Windows version of the application, use the Acronis Rescue Media instead as this does not use the database and each use of the standalone application is forgotten immediately on rebooting into Windows.