Any way to throttle network usage for ACPHO (build 39703) during business hours?
I do see that I have the ability to modify the data upload speed, but was hoping to set it up to reduce upload speed during business hours, then let it run at full speed at night. Is this possible with ACPHO?
Steve-
Thanks for your quick reply. I was afraid that was the case.
So, if I run a backup job, let's say, at 6PM, it'll run 'til completion OR until I pause it at 8AM the next day (assuming no errors). There's no way to schedule the backup to "pause" at 8AM and "resume" at 6PM, right?
Am I correct in assuming that you are dealing with backups to the Acronis Cloud. There may be something in the QOS (quality of service) setting in your router that will allow you to do this. I suspect it would have to be a business grade router rather than domestic router. My Asus AX3000 does not, as far as I remember, allow time-zones to change the priority of network traffic.
Ian
gary seven wrote:Steve-
Thanks for your quick reply. I was afraid that was the case.
So, if I run a backup job, let's say, at 6PM, it'll run 'til completion OR until I pause it at 8AM the next day (assuming no errors). There's no way to schedule the backup to "pause" at 8AM and "resume" at 6PM, right?
Not using the Acronis Scheduler as far as I know!
You might be able to do something if using the Windows Task Scheduler to launch the task but not sure that it would be able to pause the Acronis task while it is active without using a third-party tool.
The other option here is to try to size your backups so that they would always be able to complete within the allowed time frame. You would do this by splitting any very large backup tasks into several smaller ones with a subset of selected data. For example, I only keep my Windows OS and installed applications on my C: drive with no significant user data other than perhaps some settings stored in the AppData folders. That is one backup that remains relatively small. My user data / documents etc are on another partition and are backed up in a separate task. Some other data, in particular, my Hyper-V and VMware Virtual Machines are not backed up at all by ATI / ACPHO due to both size and time. These I back up locally using a Synchronisation application that only copies changed files and is run on demand after I have been using a VM for testing or problem recreation.