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True Image spins up Harddrives

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Hello,

At first sorry for my english. Why don't you have a German support forum?

My Problem is as follows: I got Acronis True Image 2010 running on a Windows Vista machine with 5 harddrives installed. I set up a cronjob for backing up my C: drive. The other 4 harddrives are set to spin down (switch off ?) after 3 hours of idle.

When Acronis starts to back up my C: drive it analyses every partition and drive -> it powers on my 4 other hdds just to check the partition table. Thats waste of energy and engine lifetime (don't know if engine is the right word for the thing that makes the platters in the hdd rotate) and I don't want to get my drives spinned up if it is not necessary.

How do I disable this check?

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Dominik,

In short, you can't!

True Image links tasks and shedules to disk ID's, and therefore has to start every drive it can find to check which drives are connected so that it can match the drive ID to a task and also it needs to 'know' what disks are available in case you want to make an image.

It's a pity that I can't switch off this check. I'll have to search for an other backup program.
Thank you for your reply

Colin has nailed it. Perhaps relevent, why not let you pc go into standby, you can save tons more energy that way? The drives will all startup when you come out of standby but, during standby, they stop spinning, and the cpu, etc go to half power or less.

In any event, adding more code for this particular circumstance is something I would not like to see; I'd rather the prog is kept as simple as possible to reduce the chances for bugs as new versions are developed. It's hard enough keeping up with the widely used features and options ;)

I got some server applications installed on this pc like media streaming, upnp media server, webserver etc. that's why the pc runs almost 24/7

I see. Well, if you're keeping data on several drives, then your system drive ought to be pretty small (used space, anyway) so it shouldn't take very long to back up. Small consolation, but it's something.

regards,
sh