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Consolidation Process Seems Stuck

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When an incremental backup is complete it does this process called consolidation which takes many hours and I give up and kill it so I get my PC back. It also says 107% complete? How can a backup be 107% complete??

Anybody know what can be going on an why it would take so long? Backup size is around 332gb.

Cliff

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The progress estimates (time or %) are notoriously off in Acronis TI; take them for what they are, rough estimates. Because of multiple operations happening, there might be a bug when estimating completion here, not critical, though.
Consolidation (happening when you use incremental only backup and you choose the consolidation option to reduce the number of backups after a while) is an attractive proposition, but the technology makes the process demanding in space and time. It is similar to do video editing, in some sense. ATI first creates temporary copies of the files to consolidate to avoid losing data in case of failure, then it edits the files on the fly to edit out obsolete sector data and replace by latest one, then, if the operation succeeds, it deletes the original files and starts renaming the remaining files to create a coherent chain. Too many points of failure, too slow; just avoid it.
The best option is to use the options to create a new full backup after a certain number of incremental files, and to keep only N most recent chains (full+its incrementals). Remember you need enough space for a new full backup when you reach your retention limit, since ATI first does a full backup before erasing any existing older chain.