Recovery Wizard: Analyzing partition 'C:'...

Dave, as far as I understand, if you are seeing the 'Analysing partition ...' message during a recovery, then that is referencing the partition stored within the backup image, not the target drive.

Unfortunately, one of the weaknesses of Acronis recovery is that it often 'goes quiet' and doesn't display any status indication to show any progress of the action being performed, which can lead to both user frustration and cancelled recovery / retries with the same result.

I can only suggest leaving the room where the analysis is being done, make yourself  a drink (tea, coffee, something stronger!) and come back after an hour to check on progress!

If the recovery has already been in this 'stuck' state for several hours, then it has probably hung and may never move on without using the big red power button and retrying.

Wow Steve, I don't know how you could tell that coffee would do the trick. Was that just a shot in the dark, or have you previously found coffee to be effective? Would, say, an espresso based mocha have done an equally good job? Would "something stronger" have sped up the process, or increased the odds of success? Nice work, in any case.

So, I did get past Analyzing... but then poked around too much and found myself going through the whole thing again. I was going to just end it all, but then I though that was a little drastic and I wouldn't be able to go to the pub next week if I did, so I decided to try your "something stronger" method instead.

I'll report back on how that works or whether I just couldn't take it anymore.

Dave, hopefully you may be making some progress!

Sometimes it is best to just walk away from something rather than get yourself more and more frustrated by it, then come back after a break!  Coffee tends to be my thing as I can't stand the smell of tea and have never really been one for lots of alcohol apart from an occasional 'night-cap' of Southern Comfort!

The other approach for when any vital systems / data is involved is to have a dual backup strategy in play.  I have both ATI and Macrium 8 installed on such systems with both running scheduled backups to avoid any 'all eggs in one basket' scenarios!  That shouldn't be necessary but with the move by Acronis to subscription and Cyber Protection.....  I am keeping with my perpetual licenses!

Steve, thanks for you dual strategy advice. Words of wisdom, though I may have to modify them a bit for my situation, since I'm not a Southern Comfort guy. I think I can adapt them for use with some combination of coffee, wine and rum.

And I had though that my local and cloud backup counted as a dual backup strategy. Perhaps I need to broaden my outlook on that.

Turned out that I waited too long to use my local backup, since the date I need to go back to is past my oldest local backup. So, now I'm working from my cloud backup. Task Manager says that my Network Utilization runs between 0% and 2.5%, and that this will take 2, now 3, days. Hemlock is starting to sound more attractive again, though I understand your aversion to tea. Any idea why it's limited to this tea-inducing pace? I figured the glacial upload speed had  to deal with parsimonious resource usage on a shared platform and asymmetrical upload rates. Since neither of those apply here, all I can think of is slow Acronis server speeds. Also open to any ideas on fixing same.

2%! Where's that tea kettle?

Recovery from the Acronis Cloud is probably one of the slowest methods although it can definitely be effective provided the network connection remains reliable.

I have a video on my YouTube channel where I did a Cloud recovery using ACPHO and WinPE rescue media.

Great video! I would have had a much clearer idea of what I was in for, had I seen that.

Seems like you were getting about 4 or 8 MBps, depending on how you count it. (30 or 60 GB; 2 hours)

That's not too wildly different from what I guesstimate is my 2 MBps rate. (Link Speed: 1Gbps; Network Utilization: c. 2%). Though now it's shrunk down to Time left: 1 day 5 hours, so given something like 600 GB to restore, that's about 5.5 Gbps.

So I guess I'm in the ballpark for expected speeds, assuming yours was fairly typical.

Wish there was a way to combine my local backup, which is probably 99% of what I want, with the 1% difference from the online backup.

Hmm. Is there a way to do that? If, say, you had all the hashes for your current disk sectors, and those for the backups, local and cloud, could one strategically pull recovery data from local and cloud sources? Maybe even from the current hard drive, to the extent that it's probably very close to what I need?

I realize that this would be a completely different product. Does such a tool exist? Just wonderin'.

(Also, just notice that I posted this in the 2017 ATI forum, though I'm using ACPHO in 2022. Weird.)

> Also, just notice that I posted this in the 2017 ATI forum, though I'm using ACPHO in 2022. Weird.

Hello Dave,
I've moved the topic to the correct forum  https://forum.acronis.com/forum/acronis-cyber-protect-home-office-forum…