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Non-Stop Backup File Corruption

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The following complaint was submitted to tech support during the first week of November, 2012. They never responded to it. I'm placing it in the forum in the hope that somebody might have had the same problem resolved by now.

Problem with Non-Stop Backup corrupting Runtime Library on System Drive.

The main (and pretty much only reason) I upgraded from my previous version of True Image was for the non-stop backup program. I was looking for something to replace my rapidly aging Norton GoBack. Unfortunately I've run into a severe glitch with the non-stop back that would largely invalidate it's utility.

I've encountered the following problem with ATI Home 2012, the trial version of Home 2013 and the upgrade offer of Home 2013 to replace Home 2012 (Build 5551).
Between installations of the above I've removed the prior ATI Home version as well as the non-stop backups it created.

TO explain: my system consists of three physical drives: C, a 64GB Kingston SSD, D-G, a WD 640 GB, and H-I, another WD, a 1.5TB which uses I: drive (half the physical drive) to store the time explorer directory.
If I restore the system drive via a rescue disk (the same behavior has been found from rescue disks created from all three versions of Home cited above, as well as a duplicate disk created from a second, fresh installation of Home 2013 10 days ago), the restored system drive C performs normally.
However, if I use a non-stop backup archive (usually the most recent) to restore (from a rescue disk or from within TI, which of course requires a reboot into TI to do the system drive), there is a corruption of the MS C++ runtime library.
I find this affects my Coral Draw 12 first, not allowing it to boot and terminating with a pop-up message from the MS Visual C++ Runtime Library that there was a Runtime Error and abnormal program termination (see attached). If I restore the drive with a regular backup, then Coral Draw boots properly.
Now I've seen that runtime library error extended to other programs as I restored my System drive from the latest non-stop backup. Corel Paint, Windows Explorer and Adobe Photoshop Elements are also affected in the same manner.

I don't know if other programs will crash as well, but this is bad enough if I can't trust non-stop backup to restore my system drive. As I said, it was the major impetus for purchasing the new ATI Home in the first place.

I haven't tried to restore other drives from the non-stop backups, since my system drive is the one which would be most crucial to me to restore as frequently as I need to do so. Otherwise, the non-stop backup does seem to restore individual files (all I've tried were text or WordPerfect files) without a problem.

I don't know why TI would cause this corruption - I wouldn't think it would try to modify the library, unless it's something to do with the registry???
I would rate this a severe problem since using non-stop backup is so critical to reversing a sudden Windows or other corruption - MOST especially if it involves the system drive, the one containing Windows and all my Program Files.

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No response was ever forthcoming. In the interim, the same problem has occurred with the latest ATI 2013, Build 6514.

Thinking it might be some problem with my system using Win XP (SP3), I installed a copy of 2013 which I had purchased for a friend on his computer: a Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop running Vista. It made no difference -- the same C++ library corruption messages starting poping up after a restore from a non-stop backup.

I just tried to file another email complaint online, but the Acronis web site says my access to email support was terminated one week after I filed the original complaint back in November.
Thus, I'm submitting the problem to the forum.

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