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Computer won't wake from sleep/hibernate

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I have a daily Routine Backup onto an external USB drive (Incremental) using Acronis True Image Home 2012. In the Advanced Settings for the backup all the boxes are checked including the "Wake up the sleeping/hibernating computer" check box.

At 5:00AM, when the backup is scheduled, nothing happens. Later on, the moment I move the mouse, of course, everything wakes up and the backup starts.

The computer is configured to go to sleep after 2 hours of inactivity to save power when I forget to turn it off at night.

Thanks for any advice..

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Greetings,
We have seen cases where a system can fail to wake in order to run a back up task. Some of the following can affect this.

Your OS
Build number of Acronis installed
3rd party software conflicts
Your installed hardware - Drivers versions

Sometimes determining the cause is easy, but other times not so much.

One of our more senior MVP's has compiled a helpful guide which contains several suggestions on ways to overcome this behavior. See Grovers True Image Guides in the useful links menu to your left.

Thanks for your comments shadowsports ... I will look through that. My OS is Windows 7, build 7133. I wiull look at the other things..

Another option would be to use the WINDOWS Task Scheduler and use it to create any simple task to wake the computer just prior to backup time. You could also even use Windows Task Scheduler to run the backup task instead of TrueImage.

Thanks guys... I have reviewed the info suggested and set it up in Windows Task Scheduler. I will post the results when it runs next. Wish me luck! :)

Well nothing I tried worked so I went back to the old "leave the computer on 24/7" routine -- which works. Strangely enough, task scheduler said the task was completed. ATI sid it wasn't. When I woke the computer the backup task did not start. When I opened ATI to check the log, the backup commenced.

I will try Grover's suggestion about using task scheduler to do some simple task.