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Hi all,

 

INTRODUCTION

I bought an Acronis True image 2020 software package the last year.

I use it in a remote computer to make a backup of the important data in a USB external hard disk.

The backup is programmed to start once the computer is being shut down or resetted, and it must happen only once per day.

This allows the person who works on that computer to forget about the backup as once she shut it down, the backup should start automatically.

 

Before the pandemic started I had the same issue and contacted the technical support and a very kind guy from Acronis tried to help, but the issue was simply impossible to solve.

After a while though it disappeared and backups started to work again.

 

Now, the issue reappeared and I don't know what to do.

 

QUESTION

I have configured that Acronis installation to send me an email when it fails and in the log I get I can read that the location where the backup must be stored has not been found.  Error code 0xb0428.

 

Well, if I open the Acronis True Image 2020 software I can navigate perfectly to the folder where the backup must be located.

 

Anyone here knows what could be happening?

 

Thank you all in advance

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Joan, welcome to these public User Forums.

There are several reasons why your backup task may be failing but we would need to see the log files from the failed events to be able to narrow the reason down!

There is a new MVP Assistant log viewer tool that has now been made available by Acronis via the Community Tools page.. 

If you have Disks & Partitions backups created on ATI 2020 or later using .tibx files, then look in the Backup Worker logs.

If you have Files & Folders backups using .tib files (or Disk backups from earlier versions using .tib files) then look in the Demon logs.

Other logs are shown by the MVP Assistant under the 'Active Logs' heading of the Log Viewer page of the Assistant.

The log files should be zipped to preserve their original file names if sharing in the forums and would need to be less than 3MB in size, otherwise you would need to share the zip file via a Cloud share service such as OneDrive, Dropbox etc.

Areas that you should check are:

In the remote computer power options: is USB selective suspend enabled for your external USB HDD used for the backups?

In the Advanced Options for your backup task, what settings do you have the 'Error handling', i.e. how many retries over what period of time?  You could try changing this to allow time for the USB HDD to 'wake up' if has been suspended or 'gone to sleep'.

An alternative option would be to use a Pre Command simple windows batch command file to check for the external USB HDD being present before continuing the backup task.

Example batch file: CheckDrive.BAT

echo off
set usbhdd="S:"
set loopcount=5
if not exist %usbhdd% goto loop

:exitloop
if not exist %usbhdd% goto nodrive
dir %usbhdd%
echo "Drive found!"
exit /b 0

:nodrive
echo "Drive not found!"
exit /b 1

:loop
set /a loopcount=loopcount-1
if %loopcount%==0 goto exitloop
dir %usbhdd%
timeout /t 5
goto loop

With the above script, you need to set your backup USB HDD drive letter on the second line, i.e. set usbhdd="E:" or whatever the drive letter for the HDD is.

The script will check for the drive being present and if not found will loop 5 times with a 5 second delay to give time for the drive to wake up, but if it doesn't then the backup task will not continue!

To use this in a Pre Command, click on Options then Advanced then on Pre/Post Command then on the Edit button for the Pre Command.  Use the [ ... ] button on the right to navigate to where you have put the CheckDrive.bat file and select it, then finally, click on the Test Command button to make sure it will run successfully.  When finished, click on the OK buttons to save the changes to the task settings.