MrUnknown
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So, a while back I set up a backup system for a client of mine that used Acronis to backup certain folders to a NAS he purchased.
This was working fine for a while but a few issues have come up. So I wanted to ask everyone if they have any experience with this and how I could improve its performance.
I am trying to do incremental backups so the next backups happen fast. I am thinking I might have to do full backups every time if Acronis is trying to copy the backup to the computer, compare the files, then create the new backup.
Acronis doesn't consolidate the backups properly. It was set to keep a month of backups, I saw one on there from 4 months ago. It is supposed to consolidate the backups, but there were like 15 files or so.
It seems when a backup is interrupted for whatever reason, Acronis leaves a temp file on the NAS and never removes it. This is filling up the HDD for no reason and causing the other backups to fail.
I changed some settings a few months back that fixed many of their issues, but one computer with a ton of iTunes music was causing the temp files to be created and fill up the HDD on the NAS for no reason.
So, my questions are, should I use Acronis in this manner for backup up to a NAS device? It seems like it was designed to do it, but it does it very very poorly or I have some very bad settings somehow. My experience with Acronis is mostly for disk images, and I think it is fine for that, but it seems as a regular backup application, it is horrible and useless. At least to a NAS device.
Is the incremental backup not suited for storage on a NAS? There are many ways Acronis could do this to keep network usage down, but they don't seem to be using them. It is like it uses the NAS device as an actual HDD, reading and writing directly to it. Imagine consolidating 3 2GB files over a network, would end up transferring over 6GB of data each time. I don't know if this is what it is doing, but it seems like it instead of trying to do it locally or some other method.
Should I dump Acronis all together? I was thinking about maybe moving them over to another backup application like GFI Backup or TODO Backup, which are both free. They are closer to the traditional "backup" app out there.
Any feedback or suggestions are appreciated. I feel bad because I recommended this setup and it is performing so badly. The client is understanding about my issues, but I still hate it.
This was working fine for a while but a few issues have come up. So I wanted to ask everyone if they have any experience with this and how I could improve its performance.
I am trying to do incremental backups so the next backups happen fast. I am thinking I might have to do full backups every time if Acronis is trying to copy the backup to the computer, compare the files, then create the new backup.
Acronis doesn't consolidate the backups properly. It was set to keep a month of backups, I saw one on there from 4 months ago. It is supposed to consolidate the backups, but there were like 15 files or so.
It seems when a backup is interrupted for whatever reason, Acronis leaves a temp file on the NAS and never removes it. This is filling up the HDD for no reason and causing the other backups to fail.
I changed some settings a few months back that fixed many of their issues, but one computer with a ton of iTunes music was causing the temp files to be created and fill up the HDD on the NAS for no reason.
So, my questions are, should I use Acronis in this manner for backup up to a NAS device? It seems like it was designed to do it, but it does it very very poorly or I have some very bad settings somehow. My experience with Acronis is mostly for disk images, and I think it is fine for that, but it seems as a regular backup application, it is horrible and useless. At least to a NAS device.
Is the incremental backup not suited for storage on a NAS? There are many ways Acronis could do this to keep network usage down, but they don't seem to be using them. It is like it uses the NAS device as an actual HDD, reading and writing directly to it. Imagine consolidating 3 2GB files over a network, would end up transferring over 6GB of data each time. I don't know if this is what it is doing, but it seems like it instead of trying to do it locally or some other method.
Should I dump Acronis all together? I was thinking about maybe moving them over to another backup application like GFI Backup or TODO Backup, which are both free. They are closer to the traditional "backup" app out there.
Any feedback or suggestions are appreciated. I feel bad because I recommended this setup and it is performing so badly. The client is understanding about my issues, but I still hate it.
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