What is the purpose of “clone settings”?
I am running ATI 2021 on WIndoiws 11
I have 2 disks named WindowsC and WindowsD. I want to back them up daily, I created a backup called “WindowsC”. I specified the source (WindowsC) and the destination -- a folder on an external drive named ”WindowsC Backup”
I scheduled the backup to run daily at 12:01AM. I set up the notifications tab to send me an eMail when the job ends. I ran the backup, got the eMail that the backup ended successfully. I was able to restore a file. Everything is good.
Now I want to backup my D drive. I cloned the WindowsC job and it was assigned a name (1)WindowsC. I immediately changed that to WindowsD. I change the source to the D drive, the destination to a “WindowsD Backup” folder on my external drive. I changed the schedule to 12:30AM. I didn’t change the notification tab at all. But when I sent a test message, the subject says “WindowsC” not "WindowsD". Doesn’t ATI know I just changed the backup name? Apparently not. I manually changed the text from %BACKUP_NAME% to “WindowsD”.
I ran the WindowsD backup. It ended fine, but when I click on Recovery it says no backups are available. I’m guessing TIA is still confused about the backup name.
So I removed that backup and instead of cloning WindowsC I created a new backup. I named it WindowsD, set the schedule for 12:30 and typed in the smtp stuff in the notifications tab. The test message now says “WindowsD”. I ran it and can restore files from it.
So, if after cloning a backup jab and changing some of parameters, like source, destination and schedule, it doesn’t work, what it the purpose of “clone settings”?


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Thanks. I was trying to save some time, specifically looking up and typing in the 12 character password for SMTP authorization.
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On the Notifications page, use the option to 'Save as default' and your SMTP credentials should be saved ready for the next time you create a task of the same type!
The latter point is a bit of a pain because if you save this detail for a Disk backup task then go to create a Files backup task, it forgets the saved data!
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