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UK Acronis Cloud Server Down?

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Over the last few days, I'm unable to backup to the Acronis Cloud on three different PC's.  I'm running TI NG Premium, build 6116 on all three PC's.  One is a desktop that's evolved, but has an Asus P97 M/B, 1TB SSD, Core i7 4GHz, 16GB RAM.  Also two laptops - Sony VAIO and Acer V5.  All three PC's running Win10 Home with latest updates.  All cloud backups are to the UK Acronis Datacentre.

Up until about 27th Feb, all three PC's have been backing up to Acronis Cloud with no problems.  Since then, I get the same problem on all three PC's.  If I run the cloud backup, just above the progres bar, it says, "Connecting to Acronis Cloud..." and this stays there for about ten minutes.  On the other end of the progress bar, it says, "Calculating time remaining..." and that stays there as well.  The progress bar does not move.  After quite some time (I'm guessing about ten minutes), an error message comes up, "The last backup has failed.  Failed to connect to 185.151.162.11".  I have searched through this forum and found a thread that instructs you to run an Acronis Cloud Connection Verification Tool.  I've done this and get multiple errors...

Verifying connection to Front End Servers
Performing name resolution for: cloud-fes-eu3.acronis.com... SUCCESS!
Verifying connection to 185.151.162.11 on port 44445... Failed! Error code:10060

Open connection to 185.151.162.11 on port 44445.
 Use this article https://kb.acronis.com/content/46440
Verifying connection to 185.151.162.10 on port 44445... Failed! Error code:10060

Open connection to 185.151.162.10 on port 44445.
 Use this article https://kb.acronis.com/content/46440

Verifying connection to Registration Servers
Performing name resolution for: cloud-rs-eu3.acronis.com... SUCCESS!
Verifying connection to 185.151.162.12 on port 55556... Failed! Error code:10060

Open connection to 185.151.162.12 on port 55556.
 Use this article https://kb.acronis.com/content/46440

Verifying connection to RPC Servers
Performing name resolution for: web-api-tih.acronis.com... SUCCESS!
Performing name resolution for: web-api-vmp.acronis.com... SUCCESS!
Performing name resolution for: web-api-tie.acronis.com... SUCCESS!
Verifying connection to 69.20.59.84 on port 443... SUCCESS!
Verifying connection stability to 69.20.59.84 on port 443...
Connection was verified. Packets Success rate 50/50
Verifying connection to 69.20.59.83 on port 443... SUCCESS!
Verifying connection stability to 69.20.59.83 on port 443...
Connection was verified. Packets Success rate 50/50

I've tried pinging the failed IP's and they all fail the ping test.  I've disable Kaspersky Total Security and this doesn't make any difference.  Kaspersky logs show zero blocks for IP's or ports, so I don't think it's that.  My router is not blocking any IP's or ports and I've made no changes to its configuration.
A Google search has revealed some changes to this server though...

Cobweb - Scheduled Maintenance - Monday 27 February 2017

Status: Closed

Scheduled Maintenance: Monday 27 February 2017

Services Affected:

Cloud Backup Powered by Acronis

Service Impact:

Acronis is making IP address changes to their datacenter.  If your firewall is set to the old IP address you may need to make a change to the new IP address, if blocked.  Please see below the old and new IP addresses:

 old ip                      new ip                     DNS name

154.46.0.34            185.151.162.10       cloud-fes-eu3.acronis.com

154.46.0.36            185.151.162.11       cloud-fes-eu3.acronis.com

154.46.0.37            185.151.162.12       cloud-rs-eu3.acronis.com, fes-eu3-baas.acronis.com,  cloud-as-eu3.acronis.com

154.46.0.35            185.151.162.13       fes-eu3-baas.acronis.com

80.69.24.99            185.151.162.15       wr-eu3-baas.acronis.com

154.46.0.38            185.151.162.14       cloud-wr-eu3.acronis.com

Reason for Maintenance:

Change required to datacenter

Services Affected:

Cobweb Cloud Backup - Powered by Acronis

Has anybody else been experiencing backup problems to Acronis Cloud in the UK/Europe recently?  I've tried making a new backup task to a US Datacentre and that also fails.

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Yes, i have noticed that it takes very long time for TI2017 to log in to the servers. And when i try to reconfigure some cloud backups i get an error message stating "An error occurred either during connection or on the server. Check your Internet connection, or try to sign out, restart the program and sign in again".

I am connected to the servers in Germany.

Error message: http://privat.bahnhof.se/wb792290/ti2017error.png

Graham & Roger, have you raised a support ticket each to report these Cloud server issues to Acronis?  If not, then please do so as we have no ability to do anything with these issues in the forum with no access to the server infrastructure etc.

I wish that Acronis would put out status messages about this type of problem, even if only on the online Dashboard.

I submitted a support case a couple of days back for a very similar issue going to the EU2 Cloud server.  One of the annoying things was that the IP address giving the error is not included in the Cloud Verification Test tool, which I also reported.

And the latest update.....

UK Acronis Cloud Server is back up and running again.  Cloud backup is working fine now without me making any changes to anything.

So for three days, I've not been able to backup to Acronis Cloud.  I've spent a considerable number of hours diagnosing and gathering information to satisfy myself that it's not caused by anything at my end - Security software, settings, router, broadband provider etc.  Only to find that when I get to my computers this morning and about to contact Acronis Support, it's all now working.

The amount of grief I've had from non-working TI software over the past three years is considerable...  USB3 hard drive not recognised by Recovery Media.  Try and Decide removed from an earlier version of TI.  Try and Decide was then put back into the next version, but it did not work on one of my PC's.  Acronis Support even gave me an extended license to make up for several issues that affected me and the assistance that I gave them for providing lots of diagnostic data.  And now an unreliable Cloud Backup which looks like it was caused by some maintenance work, but no warnings issued by Acronis.  I wouldn't have minded if we had been warned.  I wouldn't have spent hours trying to resolve a problem which was not of my doing.

And yet, I still come back to Acronis for a backup solution.  I've tried other backup solutions over the last six months in order to avoid some of the bad software issues pop up frequently with True Image.  They all work great for file and system backups, but only to a local backup media.  Most don't offer cloud backup and those that do, charge the earth or don't provide system backup to cloud.

My UK Cloud server was working again when I tested it last night and the backup was going to the EU3 London server despite the Dashboard showing me the files on the EU2 server when I hit this problem!

Graham Tolhurst wrote:
Roger A, maybe your cloud server problems are also working now.  Let us know.

Yes, i could successfully connect fast and upload files at around 60-95Mbps. So it seems to be resolved. :)

 

Although I'm in US, I have always backed up to UK servers due to originally issue with one of my computers and the US servers. Since end of February, .fFor last few days, I have successfully backed up. However, in the cloud dashboard, although I see all my devices, the Backup tab sees no backup files, and storage status thinks my cloud is empty. If I needed to recover, nothing is found.

Deborah, you may be best advised to raise your specific issue with Acronis directly and let them investigate why your cloud dashboard doesn't show your backups.  We have no access to the systems involved in these user forums.

In terms of your backup strategy, you should not rely only on having backups in the Cloud but should also have local and / or network backups to complement your backup strategy.  Should you need to do a whole disk recovery the local / network backups would provide the fastest method of recovery.  The Cloud is your safety net should the worse case scenario occur and you lose all your local backup data, or need to recover individual files or folders that was included in your local backup but is held in the cloud.