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Validation Is taking much longer now on ATI2020

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Hello, I been using ATI since 2018. I use this software to backup several large hard drives. This is solely for home personal use.

I have setup two separate backups to cover my four drives. Each backup runs twice a week. So, in total I have four days out of the week in which a backup is going.

The first is a full backup and then followed by 5 incremental backups before creating another full version.

My full backups are approximately 5TB in size each.

With this ATI 2020 version I am now setup on a brand-new workstation and creating all my backups from all new backup drives. So, no previous backups (.tib files) from last 2019 version.

It’s been exactly 25 hours now and I’m still backing up with the time remaining showing “less than 1 minute” for the past three hours now. I don’t recall the backup taking this long under the 2019 version.

In any event, my concern here is that I have setup to automatically validate after the backup. And from reading over some of the other posts on this forum, it sounds like (at this rate) once the backup completes, I’ll be validating for several days.  :\

Which if is the case will certainly interfere with my next scheduled backup.

 

Again, I never experienced this taking as long under the previous versions. I’m now contemplating either going back to 2019 (which feels like a downgrade rather than moving forward) or looking into other backup options.

If it helps to know my system specs are as noted below;

CPU: Intel i9-9900k @ 3.60GHZ

RAM: 32 GB

OS: Windows 10 Pro (Version 2004) 64-Bit

My backup device is two 10 TB “Western Digital My Book” external hard drives.

 

On my older and much slower system (i7-4790k) backup under ATI 2019 seemed quicker with the validation being no longer than the time of the backup itself. I was using the 8 TB Western Digital My Book external hard drives with my previous setup.

And from what I’m reading on these forums, the amount of time it takes to backup 5 TB isn’t nothing compared to when I start having multiple chains to validate after the backup.

The validation will occur for every incremental chain created thus increasing the time to complete this whole process we’ll beyond that of previous versions.

 

Is going back to ATI 2019 the only fix or workaround for these extended times? Or will there be any updates that will correct the way validation is being handled under ATI 2020 anytime soon?

Or is this extremely unbearably longer than preferred method of validation process considered normal and the way it works now under ATI 2020?

 

Thanks in advance for any insight on this.

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Richard, welcome to these public User Forums.

Unfortunately there are known issues with validation on ATI 2020 caused by a change in behaviour which now defaults to validating the whole backup version chains for a task, instead of just validating the current, most recent chain.  This obviously makes the whole process a lot longer to complete!

Acronis have changed this in the current ATI 2021 Beta version undergoing testing by users and now give an option to users to choose what to validate, i.e. most recent chain or everything!

You are welcome to join the 2021 Beta test program at https://www.acronis.com/en-us/personal/computer-backup/beta/

Hi Steve, thanks for sharing that information on the beta testing program. I may have to give that a try. I suppose at some point the beta will be included on a future update that stops the current method of validation on ATI 2020?

 

I haven't even reached the validation part and already encountering other issues. The initial backup is not completing. I created a new thread for this....

 

https://forum.acronis.com/forum/acronis-true-image-2020-forum/backup-fa…

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As I understand it, there will be no further updates to ATI 2020; ATI 2021 will be released shortly - if the past is a guide it will be released in mid to late August, possibly (very) early September.

Ian