Acronis

The Acronis Backup Check queries the native XML log files written to the device's ProgramData folder for the product.

We check any XML log files written to in the previous 24 hours for those relating to a backup job and parse the completion status code.

• 6 - Success.
• 11 - Failure.
• 5 - Success with Exceptions.
• 1 - Canceled (treated a failure).

It is important to alert any failure events recorded in the backup, even where a success event is discovered, as the failure may be an indication of a larger problem that needs investigated.

If Acronis Backup and Recovery is configured to retry failed backups and a backup is ultimately successful, the initial backup attempt failures are ignored.

Acronis version v11.0.17437 and later

The Backup Check for Acronis uses their command line tool to retrieve the backup status for the latest versions of Acronis on the local device. To utilize this tool a command is passed from the Agent the first time the check runs to begin the collation of the backup activity GUID information from the existing backup jobs, which is then used for subsequent Backup checks.

After the check is enabled it may take a number of hours before the backup data becomes available. During the initial run, the check will fail to retrieve the backup status, as the data is still in the process of compilation.

As this is expected behavior for the check, rather than record a failure and generate an alert, it is reported on the All Devices view as a soft failure (yellow tick) with the one of the following messages:

• Acronis Backup Check initialized. Waiting for new activities.

  The check remains in this state until the next time it runs and the backup activity status retrieved.

• Backup In Progress.

  The backup status cannot be determined if a backup is in progress on the device when the check runs.

• One or more backups in progress. Cannot determine backup status.

  We recommend you configure the Daily Safety Checks to run after the backup is completed.

When the Backup Check runs during the Agent installation, it automatically enables the Acronis command line tool.

For existing installations, or where the Check has recently been added, it is possible to achieve the required first run of the Backup Check before its scheduled time. This can be achieved from Test Check within the Backup Check section of the Agent itself or when running the Daily Safety Checks (either started in the Agent or from the All Devices view).

Acronis Backup and Recovery 11.0 Server for Windows (revisions between 17311 and 17436 inclusive are not supported).