Articles related to Acronis Backup 12

FAQs & Hot Topics

Registering maintenance renewal under Acronis Account
Acronis product fails to back up a VMware virtual machine with "Creating a quiesced snapshot failed" or "An error occurred while quiescing the virtual machine"
Acronis Backup 12: Trial
Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5: FAQ

Licensing, Requirements, Features & More

How to find the serial number of your Acronis product
Acronis Software: exclude program folders and executables from antivirus and other security programs
Acronis Universal Restore
Windows 10 support in Acronis products
Acronis Cyber Cloud: access ports and hostnames
Solid state drive support in Acronis products
Firewall settings for Acronis products
How to check whether your license is perpetual or subscription
Backup archive compatibility across different product versions
Windows activation required after restore with Acronis Universal Restore, cloning or converting backup to virtual machine
Acronis backup software: Windows mapped network drives are not supported
Ext4 Support in Acronis Products
Hybrid drives are not supported in Acronis bootable environment
Windows 8 support in Acronis products
How to activate boxed versions of Acronis products
Acronis Bootable Media displays wrong drive letters
USB 3.0 support in Acronis products
List of support options for Acronis products
Available languages of Acronis products
Acronis Software: free VMware ESXi support
Acronis Cloud Storage: list of supported countries
Acronis Cyber Protect: compatibility with Windows BitLocker
Acronis Products: Windows Server 2012 support
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Acronis Cyber Backup: required managed machine service user rights
Acronis Backup Software: 32-Bit UEFI Devices Support Limitation
Acronis Software: Advanced Format Drives Support
Compatibility of Acronis Backup Software with Encryption Software
Acronis Cyber Backup: DFS Support
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Acronis Cyber Backup: support of Hyper-V clusters
vCloud Air support
EFI-based operating systems support in Acronis products
Acronis Cyber Protect, Acronis Cyber Backup: supported VMware vSAN versions
Acronis Cyber Backup: hardware supported by Linux-based bootable media
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Acronis Cyber Backup: vCenter Server Virtual Appliance support
Acronis Cyber Backup Advanced: Supported Virtual Tape Libraries
Installing Acronis Cyber Backup and Acronis Snap Deploy on the same machine
Acronis Cyber Backup products do not take into account tape hardware compression when calculating space on tape media
Acronis Cyber Backup Cloud: Web Console icons reference
Backup Algorithm in ESX Environment
Acronis Cyber Protect Advanced, Acronis Cyber Backup Advanced: Tape Support
Acronis Backup 12: Licensing
Acronis Backup 12: Upgrade Table
Acronis Products: SNMP Support
Acronis Backup software: NFS shares support
Acronis Backup 12: Supported Operating Systems

How-tos

How to download Acronis bootable media ISO
Registering maintenance renewal under Acronis Account
Creating an MS Installer Log of Acronis Software
Making Acronis Products Compatible with Antivirus Software
How to turn off the automatic renewal of a subscription
Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 and 12: updating to the latest build
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Acronis Cyber Backup: Restoring to Dissimilar Hardware with Universal Restore
Acronis Cyber Protect, Acronis Cyber Backup: Backing Up MySQL
Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 and Acronis Cyber Protect 15: how to collect system information
Acronis Backup 12: Trial
Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 and 12: unattended installation
Backing Up a NAS Unit
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Acronis Cyber Backup: Changing Temp Files and Folder Location
Business Products: how to check if your support program is valid
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Acronis Cyber Backup: how to optimize resource usage and backup performance
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Acronis Cyber Backup: How to disable VDDK transports on agent
Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 and 12: Viewing and Saving Installation Log
Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 and 12: Enabling SSL-Secured Connection to Backup Console
Acronis Backup 12.5 Advanced: how to configure NetApp SAN storage
Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5: Downloading Logs
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Acronis Cyber Backup: Migrating Machines to Amazon EC2 and Microsoft Azure
Acronis Cyber Backup: Managing Throttling Policies When Working with Exchange
Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 and 12: how to set up Gmail as Email server
Acronis Backup 12: Setting Up Language in UEFI Mode of Bootable Media
Acronis Cyber Protect, Acronis Cyber Backup: all or some VMware virtual machines do not appear in the console
Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 and Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud: how to configure additional network in Agent for VMware (Virtual Appliance)
Acronis Cyber Backup: How to create or update Acronis Bootable Media with closed-source kernel modules
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Acronis Cyber Backup: how to restore files from backups of NTFS volumes with Windows native Data Deduplication
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Acronis Cyber Backup: how to back up a mobile device
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Acronis Cyber Backup: how to pre-compile Linux SnapAPI module
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Acronis Backup: how to access and recover a file from mobile backup
Acronis Cyber Backup: Using Acronis Bootable Media to Boot in RHEV
Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 and 12: security guidelines
Acronis Cyber Backup: Backing Up SQL Databases with Transparent Data Encryption
Acronis Backup: How to Set Up Exclusions when Backing Up Mounted File Systems

Technical Questions & Known Solutions

Acronis software: NVMe drives in RAID mode are not detected by Linux-based bootable media and Acronis startup recovery manager
Acronis Cyber Protect, Acronis Cyber Backup: Backup Fails with "Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password"
Acronis product fails to back up a VMware virtual machine with "Creating a quiesced snapshot failed" or "An error occurred while quiescing the virtual machine"
Acronis Products: Installation Fails with "An error occurred during the installation of assembly" "Microsoft.VC80.CRT,publicKeyToken"
Acronis Products: After uninstalling Acronis product the entry in software list remains.
Acronis Software: Upgrade or Installation Leads to "Fatal Error During Installation"
Acronis Cyber Backup: Disk Backup with Acronis VSS Provider Fails on Windows SBS and domain controllers
Acronis Backup: Corrupted MFT, Run List, Block Bitmap or Index forces sector-by-bector backup mode
First cloud backup is slow
"Backup did not start" alert
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Acronis Cyber Backup: backup fails with 'The shadow copy provider had an unexpected error while trying to process the specified operation'
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Acronis Cyber Backup: backup fails with "CRC error" or "Failed to read the snapshot"
Acronis Software: Installation fails with "MainEngineThread is returning 1603" or "MainEngineThread is returning 1618"
Acronis Backup Software Creates Large Incremental or Differential Backup Archives
Acronis Cyber Protect, Acronis Cyber Backup: How to Restore Files and Folders from Cloud (Web Restore)
Acronis products: Installation log shows message "Failed to grab execution mutex. System error 258."
"Backup/Activity is not responding" alert
Acronis Cyber Backup: backup fails with "The operation has timed out"
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Acronis Cyber Backup: backup fails with "VSS writer 'SqlServerWriter' with class ID 'A65FAA63-5EA8-4EBC-9DBD-A0C4DB26912A' has failed to process the snapshot"
Acronis Backup Software: BSoD after Restore to New Hardware with "Stop 0x0000007B" Due to Missing Drivers
Acronis software creates a temporary file during snapshot
Acronis software: *.OST-file is not backed up
Acronis Cyber Backup: "Machine is offline for more than X days" alert
Acronis Cyber Backup: recovery of a Windows Server 2008 hangs at 88%
Acronis Cyber Backup Software: "Failed to create volume snapshot"
Acronis Cyber Backup: Backup fails with "Access to the file is denied"
Acronis Cyber Protect: Application-aware backup fails with "Failed to get the metadata from the 'VMware Snapshot Provider' extension library" or "VSS metadata is missing or corrupt"
"Backup is corrupted" alert
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Acronis Cyber Backup: Backup Fails with ''Not enough space to create a volume snapshot on the volume where the snapshot storage is located"
Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5: Execution of the .exe installation file must be explicitly allowed due to security settings
Acronis Cyber Backup: Recovery of an Exchange database fails with "It is not allowed to overwrite database during recovery"
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Acronis Cyber Backup: Hyper-V virtual machine backup fails with "Failed to obtain associated virtual system settings"
Acronis Cyber Backup, Acronis Cyber Protect: Installation on Debian Fails with "Cannot execute binary file"
Acronis products: backup to cloud fails with "Failed to resolve hostname"
Acronis Cyber Backup: installation on ARM-powered PC fails with "This app can't run on your PC"
Acronis Cyber Backup Advanced: Adding a Machine to Acronis Management Server Errors Out with "Failed to add machine to the management server"
Acronis Virtualization: Backup of Virtual Machine Fails with "Failed to open the virtual machine"
Acronis Cyber Backup: Backup Fails with 'The semaphore timeout period has expired'
Acronis Cyber Backup: operations with a virtual machine fail with "NBD_ERR_NETWORK_CONNECT"
Acronis business backup solutions and Acronis True Image Cannot Be Installed on the Same Machine
"Backup finished with warning", "Activity finished with warning", "Activity failed" alerts
Acronis Cyber Protect, Acronis Cyber Backup: all or some VMware virtual machines do not appear in the console
Acronis Bootable Media Does Not Detect HDD, RAID or NIC
Acronis Cyber Backup: "Active Protection service not working" alert
Acronis Backup 12: Adding Local Machine to Management Server Fails during Upgrade from Acronis Backup 11.7
Acronis backup products: Slow detection of some USB drives
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Acronis Cyber Backup: Hyper-V Virtual Machines are Unavailable during Snapshot Creation
Acronis Products: installation fails on Windows Server SBS 2003 or Windows XP
"Backup status is unknown" alert
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Acronis Cyber Backup: manual registration of backup agent fails with “Failed to encrypt data. The system cannot find the file specified”.

Troubleshooting

Acronis Bootable Media Does Not Detect HDD, RAID or NIC
Acronis Cyber Cloud: access ports and hostnames
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Acronis Cyber Protect 15 and Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5: Connection Verification Tool
Acronis Software: Troubleshooting application lockups
Acronis Cyber Backup: Cleanup Utility
Acronis cloud certificate location
Acronis Software: Troubleshooting Application Crashes
Linux System Report
Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 and Acronis Cyber Protect 15: how to collect system information
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Acronis Cyber Backup: Changing Temp Files and Folder Location
Acronis Cyber Backup: virtual machine backup troubleshooting guide
Acronis Cyber Backup: Troubleshooting Performance Issues
Acronis Software: Troubleshooting Scheduled Backup Issues
Acronis Backup 12: Manually Adding Machine to Management Server
Tape Detection Tools
Acronis Software: Troubleshooting Windows Operating System Lockup
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Acronis Cyber Protect: Collecting VMware VDDK Logs
Acronis Cyber Backup: SFTP Log
Acronis Cyber Backup: Troubleshooting Installation Issues
Acronis Cyber Backup: VSS Troubleshooting Guide
Acronis Backup: troubleshooting backup or recovery from Command-line issues
Acronis Backup: Collecting SnapAPI Logs
Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 and 12: how to collect debug logs (Windows)
Acronis Cyber Backup: Enabling Automatic Dump Creation for Acronis Processes
Acronis Cyber Backup: Troubleshooting vSphere Snapshot Issues
Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5: Troubleshooting mailbox backup failure
Acronis Cyber Backup: Troubleshooting HDD Detection Issues
Acronis Cyber Backup: Troubleshooting Recovery Failures
Acronis Backup: Troubleshooting Pre/Post Commands Issues
Acronis Software: Making Acronis Products Compatible with Third-Party Firewall Software
Acronis Cyber Backup Advanced: Troubleshooting Tape Detection Issues
Acronis Software: Troubleshooting Linux Operating System Lockup
Acronis Backup 12: Windows Services and Processes
Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 and 12: how to collect debug logs (Linux)
Acronis Backup 12: OS X Services and Processes