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Task still ran without the external hard drive plugged in

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Could anybody tell me what went wrong here.

I backup to an external hard drive, and i have one scheduled backup , which is a full computer backup, Now i missed the first scheduled task, but as soon as i plugged in the external hard drive the task ran and completed successfully.

Now this week the task was Due to run on the monday, so when i turned the computer on, which was on monday i did not have the external hard drive plugged in,  i'd forgot to do that, but the task still tryed to run with out the extenal hard drive plugged in,  and then i recieved errors.

And then i just ran the task manually,

So is this what happens, if i miss a scheduled task, the next time i turn the computer on, i should have the external hard drive plugged in.

But if i miss a scheduled task, and don't have the external hard drive plugged in, the task will still try to run.  thus recieving the errors.

The "if missed run task at start up" is checked

I have attached the log, if i have done it right that is.

 

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Hello crowley,

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The task will run anyway, it doesn't matter, whether you plug the external hard drive to the system, or you don't plug it. You are unable to overcome it (there is only one exception - if you place the archives to a USB flash drive).

If you schedule a task for performing backup to a USB flash drive, one more checkbox appears on the scheduling screen – If missed, run the task when device is attached.

Selecting this box will let you perform a missed backup when the USB flash drive is attached if it was disconnected at the scheduled time. If you want the missed task to be performed only when the same device is attached, select the Run task only if the current device is attached box. Otherwise the missed task will run when any USB flash drive is attached.

Thank you.

Thankyou oleg.

I understand it now, thanks again for pointing that out to me, i probably just mis-understood the user guide......