One of two backup fails

I have a task setup to run a full backup each night and it works fine. I have a second task that just creates a nightly backup of my critical files. It fails everytime. But those critcal files are located within the path of the first backup, which never fails. Why would one backup work and another fail when backing up a subset of the files?

The error message on the failure is something like:

QUOTE]Failed to backup file or folder: path to file.

Error creating the file. (0x4000A)
Tag = 0xD11B4F5EC453B921[[/QUOTE]

The task fails every time it is ran. The first time it ran, it failed on a .gif file so I deleted that file since it was not important. I ran it again but this time it failed on a .php file, which I need so it can't be deleted. I've looked at both tasks and they are the same excpet for the files that are being backed up. Does anyone have an idea as to what the problem is? How to fix it?

 

Do the tasks run at the same time?

Make a test:
Copy the folder to annother destination, create a new task and schedule it.
Does it run from the 'copy-folder'?

 

I'm guessing you're using ATI11, which has a problem with running file backups. the problem only happens to some folks but it can make "My Data" or file backup tasks unreliable. The problem doesn't happen with full backups.

Some folks have ssaid they have worked aroundt he prob by specidying no compression. For others this has not provided permanent relief.

Prior ATI version much less often had porlems runing My Data backups, but the porblem did sometimes occur with at least ATI10.

 

I have them scheduled to both run at night. They are staggered but may run at the same time depending on how many files need backing up. However, I ran the script that fails during the day to see if it would run and it failed then too.

I copied the files that are failing to another hard drive, created a test task and it ran succussfully.

 

Weird.
The files then seems not to be the reason to let the task fail.

Hm, give the tasks a gap of may be 2 hours in the night.
Perhaps they have contentions when they are scheduled...

Otherwise I have no idea...

 

Yes, I am running 11. I just tried changing the settings as you mentioned but it still failed. I guess I'll have to stick with the full backup until a new version or fix comes out. Thanks for letting me know.

 

Thanks for the suggestion. I will turn off the main task tonight and run just the partial and see what happens.

 

Just to follow up, I tried a couple of different options but the partial backup always fails. I guess Acronis can't handle partial backups, on my system at least. I've removed that and went back to the full backup, which works everytime.

 

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Tasks scheduled at overlappping times will simply run sequentially -- that's not an issue with ATI that I've heard of.

There's a more fundamental problem with aTI11's scheduler having to do with file backups.