First back up
I believe I installed Acronis and am running a back up. I
started it about 10:00 pm last night and I believe it is still running
(backing up 774 GB). I am backing up to my local external hard drive.
There is a red dot on the Back Up symbol in the upper left corner and to the
right of the "Entire PC" the circle is spinning. Is there any way to follow
the progress? Am I doing a back up? How long should it take?


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Thank you. I will check further. I was afraid it might not be backing up. I forgot to mention that at the top of the page, it has said from the beginning "Retrieving information".
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Wolverinedlk,
It does not sound like it is still running as the red dot usually indicates a failed backup or something preventing it from running How big is your backup target drive in comparison to the 774GB of data that needs to be stored there? Instead of backing up "entire pc" which may be backing up multiple hard drives, to include the one you are using to store your backups, I might suggest creating a new backup task and instead of "entire pc" you select the "disks an partitions" option, then select the top level of each disk (which will grab all partions on them)... if you have more than one disk you'd like to backup with this task.
With this method, be sure to exclude the destination drive that you are using to have the backup created on. If you use the "entire pc" option, it is possible that you are also backing up your destination backup drive, creating a backup "loop" of issues. Or you may have just run out of space... it's hard to really give you an answer as we don't know what your setup is.
Screen shots of the base "file exployer" (when you first click on "computer" or "computer", as well as screenshots of your backup job in Acronis, and screenshots of Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Administrative Tools\computer management\disk management would help in diagnosiging the issue for you if you can provide them.
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Thank you. I posted a reply instaed of reply.
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I started over and followed your suggestions. When I right click on a previous backup and say delete. That is only deleting the back up. Nothing from my computer unless I use the special tools? It appears I am now truly backing up. Thank you.
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