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Is there a way to tell Acronis not to run over a metered connection? I am often on a cellular connection when I am off-site and I do not want to consume all of my bandwidth running backups.

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Hello Robert, as far as I can tell, there is no obvious direct method of configuring Acronis not to run when you are on a metered connection (as there is for Windows 10 for example).

The only method that I can suggest would be to set up a Pre Command for your backup that will check for the presence of a resource that is only available when you are on your home network.

I had a play with this a little while back and had it working by creating two files:

File: Test.PS1

test-path "\\MYBOOKLIVE\Backups\Dell\"

File: Test.CMD

powershell -command set-executionpolicy unrestricted

powershell -file "e:\test.ps1"

powershell -command set-executionpolicy default

This combination allowed me to put the Test.CMD in the Pre Command field, this in turn calls the Powershell command file Test.PS1 which checks that my network drive is available, if so, it returns 'True' and the backup proceeds, otherwise if the network drive is not available, the backup is cancelled.
 

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Have same task as laptop user: at home I have external drive with photo, backup goes to NAS + Acronis Cloud.

If backup task starts when I`m in travel, I`ll recive some errors: about unaccesible target, missing source drive etc.

So I made sheduled task, run in System security context at startup and then every 15 minutes:

powershell.exe -command IF ((test-path "E:\RAW") -eq $true) {Start-Service -Name "AcrSch2Svc"} else {Stop-Service -Name "AcrSch2Svc"}

And set startup type "Manual" for "Acronis Scheduler2 Service"