Acronis BR Advanced SBS scheduling question

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Hi

I am a network admin and setup up my client with the above product and it works really fine.

They have 2 NAS units that they swap in and out every week. One of the units goes offsite every week.

I have setup 2 backup plans. One to backup to one unit one week and another to backup to the other unit for the other week.

Scheduling frequency is start the task every 2 weeks Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday at 11pm.

Therefore this is a custom backup plan.

My problem with my client, is that he gets confused which unit to connect to the network every week and sometimes he might connect a NAS unit which is not related to the current backup job and the backup is not executed.

Does Acronis BR have a way to notify you via email or popup alert to insert the correct media for the current backup?

What I mean, come Monday and acronis would suggest which media name it requires.

If any acronis support people could help me on this one, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks and regards

Alfred Buatti
Network Admin

Mon, 02/22/2010 - 01:42
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I'd try to do it using pre-backup command. The easy part is to check that the correct NAS is present, the other part is to display popup and wait until the corrent NAS is connected, and resume execution when user presses 'ok'.

Mon, 02/22/2010 - 11:25
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Hi dev-anon

Thanks for the info, but how do you propose to do that?
Ie have you got an example of a pre-backup command?

Thanks

Cheers

Alfred

Tue, 02/23/2010 - 11:00
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something like this...
.vbs:
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
ret = WshShell.Popup("connect the nas", 0, "--", vbokCancel)
WScript.quit(ret-1)

.cmd file for pre-backup command
dir \\unc\path\of\nas || goto askfornas
goto normal
:askfornas
ask.vbs || goto nonas
goto normal
:nonas
exit 1
:normal

The problem is that no one will read this popup at 11pm when it executes, and in order to generate in some time earlier you'll have to set up two other tasks with the same schedule only to generate notifications.

Tue, 02/23/2010 - 20:46