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I have Acronis 2012 update 2 (built 7119) installed and it is configured for incremental backup every day with a full backup after five incremental and to delete backups older than seven days. My operating system is Windows Vista. While Acronis appears to work correctly, I am curious to have an answer to the following:

1. When opening the “Event log” and initiating “Reset all filters”, the listing of the backups some days are missing, however when opening Windows Explorer there is a backup for every day. Based on the file sizes in Windows Explorer, it is five incremental and one full backup. Furthermore according to Windows Explorer files older than eleven days are deleted rather the seven days the program is configured to.

2. Again, in the “Event log” and “Reset all filters” initiated, most of the listings have a yellow warning. When these yellow warnings and most of the listings with the green success markings are opened there is a yellow warning stating “Configuration file is not found and cannot be created”.

Could someone please advise that despite the above abnormalities the program is working correctly and should I have a failure of my hard drive I will be able to have a backup capable of a full recovery.

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Welcome Steven,
The behavior you describe can have more than one cause. Quotas, retention or deletion rules for example. When you have multiple back up sets containing mixed archives Full>I>I>I Full>I>I>I and quotas or retention rules that tell the software to keep so many backups sets or individual images before deletion, the program will wait until a complete new set or set number of images is created before deleting old images or sets.

This can appear that the software is not deleting on a schedule correctly, or that it is retaining more back up sets or images than you have specified. With no filtering you should see a log entry for each task that runs.

“Configuration file is not found and cannot be created”. This is a known issue and does not affect the operation of the product in any way. It's been present since build #5545, maybe earlier. Just disregard it.

If you have editied your tasks, I would suggest deleting a recreating them from scratch. Then monitor the behavior starting from a "clean slate". If your log files continues to not to show activity for days when tasks are ocurring, I would uninstall and reinstall the latest build of the product, currently 7133.

Shadoowsports,

Thank you for your prompt response. For the last several days I have been trying to locate the latest build advised by you. Unfortunatelly I have not been successful. I tried the program's "check for updates", I have been searching through the Acronis web site and according to them I already have the latest build (7119). I would appreciate if you could advise me where to find build 7133.

Hello Steven,

Thank you for your posts.

To download the latest update of our software please log in to your Acronis web-account and click on the My Products & Downloads link. You will be able to access your product from that page. Please check the following article for additional information.

Please let us know if you need additional help.

Thank you.