Scheduling - ACRONIS Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server SBS Edition User Manual

5 Scheduling

Acronis scheduler helps the administrator adapt backup plans to the company's daily routine and
each employee's work style. The plans' tasks will be launched systematically keeping the critical data
safely protected.
The scheduler uses local time of the machine the backup plan exists on. Before creating a schedule,
be sure the machine's date and time settings are correct.
Schedule
To define when a task has to be executed, you need to specify an event or multiple events. The task
will be launched as soon as any of the events occurs. The table below lists the events available under
Windows operating systems.
Time: Daily, Weekly, Monthly
Time passed since the last successful backup has completed
(specify the length of time)
User logon
(any user, current user, specify the user's account)
User logoff
(any user, current user, specify the user's account)
System startup
Free space change
(specify the amount of free space change on any volume selected for backup or
containing data selected for backup)
An event in Windows event log
(specify the parameters of the event)
Condition
For backup operations only, you can specify a condition or multiple conditions in addition to the
events. Once any of the events occurs, the scheduler checks the condition and runs the task if the
condition is met. With multiple conditions, all of them must be met simultaneously to enable task
execution. The table below lists the conditions available under Windows operating systems.
User is idle (a screen saver is running or the machine is locked)
Location's host is available
The task run time is within the specified time interval
All users are logged off
The specified period of time has passed since the last successful backup completed
The scheduler behavior, in case the event occurs but the condition (or any of multiple conditions) is
not met is defined by the Task start conditions (p. 102) backup option.
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Event
Condition: run the task only if
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