Nonstop Backup like dead

Well I thought I'd post a bit of follow-up. It definitely was dead. Something reappeared on the list after a reboot, but it was only a shadow of an older Nonstop Backup (some 10 days back), not the one I (thought I) had created. When I saw that (checking the actual file on the backup disk), I deleted it within TIH, and TIH crashed (getting white, Not Responding). I killed it (within Windows) and restarted it. And the (Shadow) Nonstop Backup was back on the list. I deleted it once more and it disappeared from the list as well. So I created it again (well, the new one, the one I need) and it appeared nicely on the list... but it created nothing on the backup disk. And TIH crashed again when I tried to see the settings. And it refused to restart. So I killed all its processes (2 occurrences of the main one) and tried again: nope. I tried to kill its services too, but they did "not respond in a timely manner". I had to reboot the computer.

After the reboot, TIH fired up normally and the (a?) Nonstop Backup was back on the list, and started right away to back up files. So I let it do its things. When it was over, I cliqued on Edit backup settings (to see what it had actually backed up) and it told me, twice, that "Acronis Nonstop Backup Service has stopped." before showing me the window "Configure nonstop backup process", with no source selected and the wrong backup disk. Oh well, I guess it's my fault. So Cancel that and back in Task Manager. It's on "automatic" but either it didn't start at startup (so why did it start to function?) or it started and stopped. Anyway. I started it manually, closed the Task Manager and saw that it was again backing up, all by itself so to say. And as it was apparently copying files on the correct disk, I just waited.

When that was over, it crashed (TIH has stopped working), all by itself, I swear. So I closed and restarted it. And things looked good. The list was completed and the Nonstop Backup seemed normal. I cliqued the settings and it showed me the Configure nonstop backup process, with one disk as source and the correct backup disk. Am I happy? Hardly. Before that, I had been able to select not only whole disks, but separated folders on separated disks (say one whole disk with my files and my User folder on the system disk. But that's a progress nevertheless. I guess.

That's with 2012 on Win7Utimate SP1.

I have another tiny problem (the list of Disk Backups doesn't actualise, neither automatically nor manually, after a backup, so that I have to check on the disks to see if the night backups are done), but I'll live with it until the next update. Well...

Similiar situation here.

After upgrading to 2012, I deleted my old Nonstop Backup set and started a new one from scratch.

I want to back up 2 folders totalling 600GB and 440K files. These are media files that I edit (mp3 tag change for instance) causing slight file changes that are better backed up by Nonstop than by File Backup, since Nonstop only records the changes and not the full file everytime a minor change occurs.

The problem is that Nonstop hangs while processing, with its tray icon showing an "x" symbol and saying that it has "stopped". It is however frozen and only normalizes after a reboot, when it resumes but taking several hours before start copying anything (I think veryfying the incomplete backup and figuring out where to resume from) and freezes again in this process.

I tried deleting the incomplete backup and starting from zero but the pattern repeats itself. I tried disabling anti-virus/firewall but no change.

It seems like it is overflowing with the amount of data it is trying to process, rendering Nonstop useless.