Backups are created more than once
I have a situation where I have 3 backup tasks set up. They backup to a NAS. What is happening is that every time I edit a backup task to change the location of where it saves the files, it causes the backup to be create multiple times (duplicated) based on how many times I have edited the backup job. So when a backup task runs I can end up with 2 or more copies of the same backup saved onto the NAS which is filling up fast.
This got to the point where i had to uninstall Acronis and reinstall to clear this behaviour but i had to recently reset the save locations and it is doing it again.
I can't see anywhere in the user interface that enables or diables this behaviour?
Thanks.


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Cheers Steve, I am just reseting the save location on the task and that creates the issue. I have just upgraded to 2017 but it still does this. From now on I will do as you suggest and c;one the task first. The scheme is Keep 4 full backups only, so no incremental stuff.
Seems like a bug that should be fixed however.
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Andrew, could you post a screenshot of the resulting backup files so we can see the names and dates? Are you positive they are multiple instances of the same backup being repeated? Perhaps they are actually a single backup that has been split into multiple parts (the default is best size, but Acronis will split if need be do to FAT32 formatting, or trouble writing to the destsination). Also, when there are connectivity issues across the network, it may fail to complete a good backup, but not clean up and then it will use the same name and end up appedning a number to the name since it already exists (-1, -2, -3). A screenshot would help clarify a little bit.
Additionally, I would suggest grabbing MVP FTRPilot's logviewer and look at some of the recent service.logs after such changes are made and a backup is run to see if it provides any additional information such as a network failure or a permission issue or something like that. You can post some of your logs here too for extra review (they have no personal information in them - only the name of the backup task and the name of the source folder and destination folder).
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