Recovery does'nt work at all
Hey,
I use Acronis for two months now and do a backup every day on a 6 TB NAS (Zyxel NSA 325v2). In the beginning I did some differential backups before the next full backup. The last few weeks I used the incremental backup system.
Yesterday the worst case happened. I had I virus infection despite F-Secure. No idea where the infection came from. Well, I just wanted to recover the PC status two days before. For Acronis that seems to be impossible. Everything I tried just failed. I created a boot medium (tried severals CDs and DVD): On startup, I saw the "Acronis loader please wait" followed by a black screen and no reaction. Same thing when I tried the Acronis recovery function in the Acronis Software. Everything seemed to be ok until the reboot when nothing happened.
Sometimes when I chose the backup file in windows to recover, it said, it was corrupted or the path wasn't available. Fortunately just little data is lost but I spend the last 16 hours (!!!) copying every single file I needed from the backupsystem to my PC. Besides although I told Acronis to do backups of my whole system and did not exclude any Folders, the "appdata" Folder (Windows/users/XXXX/appdata) is empty and so my Outlook data and programm saves are gone. Sorry Acronis, that is shit! I bought the software for exactly this case and I'm really angry for having so much trouble with it. Against expectation a single click on "recovery" obviously was much too much for Acronis.
So what can I do not to have that Kind of desaster another time?
PS: My PC is kind of upper middle class to high end PC, I built two months ago. Latest Driver, no rubbish Software.


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Thanks for the answer and sorry for my bad behaviour. I had a lot to do yesterday, so I was very upset cause nothing worked. You're absolutly right. I should have checked the CD before. I'll give the WinPE-Version a try.
I don't understand why the app data folder is gone. I did not exclude anything more than preconfigured and checked that menu! excluded are some folders within the appdata (browser temporary files etc) but not the appdata folder with ist subfolders (local, roaming ...) itself.
Just for the future: May I work on my PC while the backup is running? Can Acronis save files that are in use (Outlook, word documents, gamesaves etc)
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The application when beginning a back up task creates a snapshot of the data specified in the task and uses that snapshot to create the back up. This allows the user to continue to use the PC while the back up is running. Any changes made by the user after the snapshot is created will not be included in the back up.
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