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Is it possible to only backup when a network drive is available?

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I am curious to know if I can schedule backups that will only run if a network share is available, and if it is not it will NOT send me an alert via-email. It will only send me an alert when a backup fails, during the backup process. I can't seem to get acronis to hit that middle ground.

All I can see is, send an alert if it fails, or don't send an alert at all, not send an alert only on failure, not when a backup can't start because the network location can't be reached.

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Well James....
You still need to check every time that you have a shared folder.....
install the acronis command on all the client.
Build a script that try to ping the network share and see if its working. If yes, script a command to copy (with the policy that can send you Email), after it finished start it on the next day.
If it does not get a ping from the computer, loop it until it find it.

Or, put it in the login script if the user do turn off the client every day...

Hi James,

1) In Acronis Backup we have ability to specify conditions that prohibit backup task run if at least one of them not met. It is possible to set up it only in Custom backup scheme.

Condition that will check availability of the destination host is "Location's host is available".

Keep in mind that it relates to cases when the host is not available (not share). So, it means if the machine with the share is unavailable, the condition will play. If just the share became unavailable (e.g. somebody stopped sharing that folder) - the condition will not play and the task will start and fail because the destination folder is not available.

2) However, since the backup task will not run in this case, the email notifications will not be sent (because they are sent only when the task fails).

I understood your point and will bring it to the enhancements discussion board.

Could you please clarify more your use case?

  1. In what situations your destination network folder becomes unavailable?
  2. Does it happen so you don't get other notifications from this destination machine when it goes offline?
  3. Do you use some kind of NAS or an ordinary computer for the network share?