I recreated my Sunday task and ran it once yesterday manually and it ran fine. I left the USB drive unplugged this morning and turned on the PC about an hour and a half after the task was scheduled to execute. The scheduled task tried to run, and presented me with a yellow warning message in my task bar. This is perfect. I could then run the task manually. However, one small problem. I deleted the old task, and created the new task with the same backup name which therefore resulted in the same task name. The never ran the old task, so it did not create a backup and thus I did not have an old backup archive file to delete. However this morning, the new AND the old task tried to run. I was unsure of which was which, so rather than try to figure it out, I deleted both tasks and selected a new, unique backup name.
So, a new question pops-up. How can I delete all the old tasks from running?
Here's my setup guide for anyone wishing to go from A to B to C. MAKE SURE TO CREATE THIS AS A NEW TASK. I RAN INTO PROBLEMS EDITING AN OLD TASK AND SAVING. THIS IS FOR TRUE IMAGE HOME version 11. This creates a weekly task, running on Sunday at 7am, which backs up to an external device.
1. From the Welcome Screen, select "Go to main screen".
2. From "Add backups", select "Disk and partition backup".
3. From "Configure disk backup process", select "Switch to disk mode".
4. From "What to back up", select "YOUR DRIVE".
5. For "Destination" insert "YOUR DESTINATION"
6. For "File name" insert "YOUR_BACKUP_NAME_"
7. For "Schedule" select "Weekly", "Sunday", "Start at 7:00 AM".
8. For "Advanced settings" select "Wake up the sleeping/hibernating computer".
9. For "Advanced settings" select "Prevent the computer from sleeping during the task execution".
10. For "Advanced settings" select "Run missed backup at system startup".
11. For "Backup scheme" select "Custom scheme" under "Backup scheme" tab.
12. For "Disk Backup Options" under "Backup scheme" tab, Backup method "Full".
13. For "Old version cleanup rules" select "Store no more than 4 recent versions".
14. Select the "Advanced" tab under "Disk Backup Options", for "Backup protection" enter password "YOUR PASSWORD"
15. For "Validation" select "Validate backup when it is created".
Thank you to Grover and others who have graciously given their time to help so far.