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schedule2.exe (Acronis Scheduling Program) Preventing Sleep at all times

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Hi,

I've set up a few back up profiles that have various timings - once every 6 hours, once a day etc. to a NAS. However I'm having issues with the PC not going to sleep. To be clear there is no back up running at the time and the PC should be asleep.

I ran cmd.exe as admin and then

powercfg -requests

This shows up;

C:\WINDOWS\system32>powercfg -requests
DISPLAY:
None.

SYSTEM:
[SERVICE] \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Acronis\Sched
ule2\schedul2.exe (AcrSch2Svc)

AWAYMODE:
None.

EXECUTION:
None.

PERFBOOST:
None.

Has anyone else noticed this behaviour and what would be the best way around it so that the PC does actually go back to sleep?

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This might be a bit of a side note but in an attempt to figure out what was going on in the schedule, I downloaded schedmgr.exe and the list has about 20 entries in it. Is it normal to have so many entries here for 4 profiles in AB11.5? The 4 profiles have numerous conditions for full, incremental, and clean up. So unless its the case that each part of a back up profile gets its own schedule inside schedmgr.exe . I should note as well that I had installed ATI2015 previously and set up profiles with schedules on that, and I wonder are these a hangover of that installation.

I guess most importantly to ask is there some where I can examine the scripts that I can see inside schedmgr.exe in a plain text file or the like to figure out what they are associated with?

Thanks in advance.

Update, having played around with schedmgr.exe a bit more, I've found the "get report" function, and it seems at least that none of the tasks are from the old installations.

Hello,

The schedmgr.exe list will show sub-tasks of a backup plan, as well as infrastructure tasks you won't see in the product GUI (things like license checking etc.).

If you are worried about old hangovers, you can do the following to clean-up the scheduler (with a standalone installation, this will be different for a managed machine using the Acronis Management Server):
- Export your plans;
- Delete them from the interface;
- Run "task zap" from the scheduler interface
- Re-import your plans.

The task scripts and related information are not plain text files so it would be difficult to check individual tasks manually.

Thanks support suggested the same and the problem persists. A new plan still creates a problem (not even a re-imported one).