User Guide

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

Linux operating system.

Events

Time: Daily, Weekly, Monthly

Time passed since the last successful backup has completed

(specify the length of time)

System startup

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 Linux operating system.

Condition: run the task only if

Location's host is available

The task run time is within the specified time interval

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. 60) backup option.

What-ifs

• What if an event occurs (and a condition, if any, is met) while the previous task run has not

completed?

The event will be ignored.

• What if an event occurs while the scheduler is waiting for the condition required by the

previous event?

The event will be ignored.