TI Home 11 Running continuously

[pscaffidi]

This morning the time in the USA reverted to standard time and Windows machines fell back one hour.

Now, my TI Home backup task is running continuously........ it finishes and then starts all over again!

I have completely deleted the task and uninstalled TI then reinstalled it and recreated the task, the problem came back immediately!

I have disabled the Acronis scheduler service pending a solution on this topic. Any assistance would be appreciated!

[ToyMaker]

I added this thread this morning. Same problem but mine stopped after 21 incrementials.

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=224288

[pscaffidi]

Toymaker,

I see that now. Unfortunately there seem to be no answers in your thread or in mine. Hopefully someone will chime in with a solution!

[JustPlainFred]

Hello and greetings from the great free state of Tennessee,
I also just recently had a similar problem. I created a task and afterward i noticed that it started running (the task) all on it own. (as soon as i was finished) There was nothing that i could do to stop it, re-booting, even shutting down the PC didn't help. Tried to delete the "task" to no avail. I ended up uninstalling TI-11(8101) and re-installing, (using the TI tool) and that stopped it finally.
Thought that it was just a "quick finger mouse error", but maybe not so? ??? Regards PlainFred

[pscaffidi]

Thanks for writing Fred. TI Tool? Is there a special utility for completely removing the program aside from the control panel uninstall?

[MudCrab]

Possibly, Fred means the Cleanup Utility (http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=1236031&postcount=12).

[pscaffidi]

Thanks, I tried the cleanup utility and then re-installed TIH 11. As soon as I created the new task it started running and running.........

[JustPlainFred]

pscaffidi,MudCrab,
Hello, yes the "acronis" clean up tool is what i used, sorry that i was not more specific, I might also add (forgot to mention in 1st post) that i tried a full recovery too. (didn't work either) .If i just let it run, afterward would get an error message, and when you checked "OK" the process would start allover again. Then deleted the "SZ" and ran the tool again, this time every thing was back to normal. In my case it had nothing to do with the clock change. Suggest that you check (left click on ) your time settings, and make sure all is A-OK. Hope this is of some help. I still think that this loop was possibly caused by my inadvertent multiple mouse left or right clicks dragging across who knows what. Regards PlainFred

[tsbulldog]

A client of mine with Acronis TI 11 Home (build 8101) running on Windows XP Home SP2 experienced the same problem of a scheduled backup task running repeatedly. My client is in the Pacific Time Zone (US) where the time turned back one hour at 2AM--the new time being 1AM--and their system clock is automatically adjusted for daylight savings time.

This sounds like a daylight savings time/date calculation problem, since others are experiencing the same issue. I have never seen this before, even back to ATI 8.0.

The backup task was sheduled for 12:01AM (same as ToyMaker), backing up to a Backup Location on External USB hard drive, not the Secure Zone. This task is NOT set to run at startup "if computer is turned off" when the task is scheduled to run. Two iterations of the backup task completed before 12:40AM. The system was then automatically shutdown at 1AM.

The client restarting the computer at roughly 7AM and the backup automatically started up again and ran 16 more times before I intervened.

It is impossible to terminate the cycle by stopping the task--it restarts before you can change the task to Manual. You have to Disable the Acronis Scheduler2 Service.

Like pscaffidi, I had no success in resolving the issue--I uninstalled Acronis TI, ran the Acronis Cleanup Tool, reinstalled Acronis, created a new Backup Location, and recreated the scheduled task.

Anybody have some ideas? Can't find anything in the Acronis Knowledge Base.

Thanks.

[shieber]

Truly bizare. Just not enough error checking done when they wrote the program.


Ah well, ATI's clock has always been off by an hour, maybe it decided to catch up on all the missed hours in one continuous run? ;-)

[pscaffidi]

How long does it ussually take for someone from Acronis to respond in this forum?

[shieber]

Response from Acronis are sporadic. Sometimes they are several weeks after the intial post sometimes the same day; many posts receive no response from Acronis.

[pscaffidi]

Great.......... Lovely............

[nhraj700]

I had the same issue with my 12:00 AM task running repeatedly. I had to uninstall the program and reinstall to get it to stop. Ending the task wouldn't work and neither did rebooting. It would start over again.

That wasn't the worst part however. TI 11 proceeded to send out 5-10 emails a minute and by the time I noticed what was happening, my email account had 3000 emails in it. Errrrr

[shieber]

Truly shoddy work. Either the programmers just never tested it for common things that could wrong or the marketing folks ordered it out the door as it was, tested and debugged or not.

[Acronis Support]

Hello all,

Please accept our apologies for the delay with the response.

All tasks can continue to run in case of incorrect uninstall of software. Please note that program uninstallation is not enough, you should disable scheduler service to stop tasks, please refer this (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/support/kb/articles/578/) article for complete description.

And there is a simpler way: delete task configuration file. Here are the paths for such files:

1. Windows XP family C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Acronis\TrueImage\Scripts
2. Windows Vista family: C:\ProgramData\Acronis\TrueImageHome\Scripts

There should be task script files with the names like 7F43D031-3D5E-426E-8958-36C75BF2E31A.tib.tis or similar.

Thank you.
--
Alexander Nikolsky

[shieber]

rotlflmfao -- Not only was ATI11 annoying badly written, but now we find that, like the unpleasant relative that comes to visit, it won't go away; it just keeps running and running.

While still an admirer of ATI10, I think ATI11 should win the software equivalent of the Elron Award -- That's the award given in Canada for the worst science fiction literature (named for one of the kings of infamously science fiction literature, L. Ron Hubbard).