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Needs option to disable backups on demand or when fullscreen application is active

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I posted a while ago about how the interaction between Acronis and Windows Defender can drastically affect performance:

https://forum.acronis.com/forum/acronis-cyber-protect-home-office-forum…

Today I was booted out of a multiplayer game because a backup started in the background. At the moment there seems to be no option whatsoever to temporarily suspend backups. At the very least there should be an option in the Acronis system tray menu to pause backups for a period of time (e.g. 1 hour, 3 hours, etc).

Another option that could be added would be to not run backups while a fullscreen application (such as a game) is active.

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Andrew, apparently this issue has been requested before and there is a feature request as reflected in this forum posting... https://forum.acronis.com/forum/acronis-true-image-2016-forum/want-temporarily-disable-scheduled-backups-starting

I did some experimenting and it is possible to suspend scheduling by using the Scheduler Manager. The command would be
postpone_run 2 <seconds>

The Scheduler Manager can be downloaded and started via the MVP Assistant. Use it carefully.

Be aware that if a scheduled time comes up while scheduling is postponed, the task won't start until the next scheduled time. For example, if the task is scheduled for 1:00 every day and is not started due to scheduling postponement, it won't start until 1:00 the next day.

Another option might be to do a pre-command for your backup task(s) which would be able to determine whether you are running the game, in which case it could return an error so as not to start the backup task. I think this would be a preferable approach, but it would be up to you to determine if the game is running. I suspect using the Tasklist command would be involved.

EDIT: Further test leads to QPROCESS command to check if the game is running. Just use the name of the game process as the argument to QPROCESS. After the call, %ERRORLEVEL% is 0 if the process exists, 1 if not.