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Hello Acronis forum,

I am somewhat new to using Acronis (version 11) and noticed immediately after restoring a drive, it backs that same drive up again. Seems like a pointless backup, as I just restored from the same image, so why does it need to back it up again?

Is there a way to disable this feature?

Thanks,
Brian

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Brian,

This is a 'gotcha' not only in ABR11.5 but in True Image as well. The Acronis scheduler has no way of knowing that the instance that is now running is a recovered one and not one that has already run. Therefore if a task is shown as not run, the scheduler will auto run it.

You might be able to get aroud this if you change your tasks to run within a time interval as part of the task conditions.

Personally I treat the this as a case of redundancy.

Ok, I'll have to play around with the scheduler. Thanks for confirming that I'm not the only one who noticed this.

In scheduling dialog there is a checkbox 'run missed task on machine startup' that is checked by default. Try to turn it off.

Hi Paul

When you scheduled you might enabled miss task will run automatically when system starts. After restore scheduler automatically check is there any missed task to be run and run backup task. this again depend on the restore of which image are restoring(day and time of the backup)

If you don't want this option edit backup schedule and unselect run missed task at start-up

Although not asked, if you do recover an image from a scheduled task, you will probably find that it may not run correctly or report it can't find the drive holding the archive. The answer is to run a catalog refresh - this gets the tasks back in sync.

Hi people,
I have the same problem with TrueImage 2015.
If a restore is done, Acronis immediately wants to do another (redundant) backup.
Seems silly really, if the restore worked OK, why try to overwrite it unless you need to.
I always remove my external backup drive before rebooting so it can't be overwritten but TrueImage still tries saying it's "calculating the time" and won't give up (telling it to stop doesn't seem to have any effect) so here's my fix.

I've disabled the "Acronis Scheduler 2" service in startup (it's easy using "CCleaner")
It can easily be enabled again.

This seems to fix the problem.

Howmor,

The reason TI will often make a new image upon restore is that it has no way of knowing if that task has been run, so upon restore it will just check the date and realise the current state of your system is older than the date. This depends on the schedule frequency and when you needed to restore.

Thanks for the reply Colin,
My fix didn't work anyway, I've also tried disabling the "TrueImage Monitor" as well as the "Scheduler", leaving only the "Mounter Monitor" running.
The problem there is that as soon as you open TrueImage, the Scheduler also starts. Actually TrueImage won't start without it.
This means that when restored, shows the scheduler is running once again.
This appears to be a problem. The user should be able to control what the computer does so this doesn't happen. In other words, I need to run a backup when I want to, not when the software wants to.
I ALWAYS do a backup before installing new software (just in case it stuffs up) and don't require the backup to start again as it's only an hour since it was done and I DON"T need another!
If I turn off (don't schedule) and untick the appropriate boxes, it should NOT run after I do a restore.
I have also noticed that if I go to the next section "Backup scheme", and then select "Schedule" again, the boxes are once more ticked.
In other words, the program takes no notice of the options I made. This is very frustrating.
If the backup is cancelled using the "Stop" or "Cancel" on the taskbar, it just keeps on running merrily along by itself even though the taskbar icon changes from blue to red. If I cancel it, that's what I want, not what the program wants.
Once again, "Do not Schedule" to me means just that, DON'T run ANY Schedule, not "Run a backup after a restore" whether I want it or not.
I've been using TrueImage since version 7 (years ago) but this problem only came up in TrueImage 2015.

Regards,
Howard.

P.S. Sorry to be so long winded, but as you can tell, I'm getting frustrated. I'm also annoyed with customer service which wants to charge me for advice saying my time has run out for service (funny that, I'm using "TrueImage 2015" and it's still the year 2015 in Australia).
I notice you mention redundancy in your first reply (top of the page), to me it's not just redundant but also a totally unwanted backup and time consuming (my time and the computers).

Howmor,

Certainly if you do not have a schedule then TI shouldn't run. I would try that again by making a new task and not scheduling it. What you could then do is use Windows Task Manager to run a True Image task. To do this, look at Grover's Guides linked in the left side margin, there is information on how to do this.