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Hey guys,

I have a question regarding my Acronis Backup Advanced 11.5 installation. We are currently using Acronis to backup notebooks of about 20 users in our company. Most of them don't have set working hours so their backup jobs get queued quite often.
And now our problem occurs. When users log in to the company network via VPN their backup task starts and uses the full capacity of the VPN tunnel. My question regarding this, is there a way to prevent a backup task from running when a user is behind a VPN tunnel?
And if not, did anyone find a workaround for this or a similar requirement?

Acronis Backup Advanced version is 11.5 Update 5
and Management Console Build is 11.5.39029

Thanks in advance and best regards
Mike

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Hello,

There is no direct way to prevent backups from running.

A workaround is to create a pre-backup script that would check the network connection and return an error (non-zero return code) if the notebook is connected via VPN. If you also set the "Fail the task if the command execution fails" option for this same pre-command, the backup will fail any time a backup is launched with an active VPN.

Thank you.