The recommendation is to disable drive monitoring
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General description of S.M.A.R.T. monitoring
Setting up E-mail notifications to have Acronis Drive Monitor send alerts and regular disk reports
This is a freeware tool designed to monitor the health status of your disks and help survive a possible disk failure
You can configure monitoring options in Acronis Drive Monitor
Acronis Drive Monitor supports all Windows operating systems starting from Windows XP
Acronis Drive Cleanser is compliant with five national standards
Clean Windows event logs to fix the issue
If any of your hard disks does not support S.M.A.R.T., you can use your own custom script to view the disk status in Acronis Drive Monitor
Update to the latest build to fix the issue
Update to the latest build or unmap unavailable drives
This has been fixed
Stop the nonstop backup first, then you will be able to safely remove the USB disk
Deployment on Dell Precision workstations results in drive letters in reverse order
This article describes the troubleshooting steps in case a network share cannot be selected as a backup destination. "The drive is not ready" error is typically related to the share specifics which should be revealed. One of the common solutions is to access the share using its IP address instead of the hostname
Use the "Remove from the list" option
Configure certain Windows events to be considered as critical
Back up your drive immediately and replace it at the first opportunity
Known health reporting issues in Acronis Drive Monitor
Quick health degradation means that your drive may fail soon
Acronis Drive Monitor supports monitoring of events in Windows event log
Disk health calculation by Acronis Drive Monitor
How disk health is calculated
Change to a different drive letter that has not been already assigned
This is a known limitation. As a workaround, copy all volumes from the flash drives to one folder. You will then be able to restore
How Acronis® Drive Monitor™ integrates with Acronis® Home and Enterprise products
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 supports USB tape drives in Build 17437
This article applies to:
- Acronis True Image 2015
- Acronis True Image 2014
- True Image 2013 by Acronis
- Acronis True Image Home 2012
- Acronis True Image Home 2011
- Acronis True Image Home 2010
- Acronis True Image Home 2010 Online Backup (Standalone)
Supported Media
Acronis True Image 2015/2014
Acronis Cloud supports backup from the following sources:
Do the following, if you want to back up individual disk/partitions or files/folders.
On a Windows computer
This article describes peculiarities of backing up to removable devices
This article applies to:
- Acronis Backup 11.5 (Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5)
- Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Build 17437 or higher
By a removable device, we mean an RDX drive or USB flash drive. A USB hard disk drive is not considered to be a removable device unless it is recognized as such by the operating system.