User`s 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

Windows operating systems.

Event

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)

*Shutting down is not the same as logging off. The task will not run at a system

shutdown.

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.

Condition: run the task only if

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