Schedled backups while travelling
At home, I have a NAS device that I back up to daily on a schedule. While I travel, the NAS is (obviously) unavailable. True Image dutifully announces daily that the "backup failed". When I try to modify the schedule to turn off the daily backup, it tells me the "network share is unavailable" and "failed to check credentials" and ultimately won't let me change the task schedule.
Is there any way to put a backup task on hold (after you've left the local network) so it doesn't continually try to backup daily during a multi-week trip? I do bring a portable drive and do manual backups, but I'd prefer not to have to delete the scheduled job and recreate it every time I travel.
Ed


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Steve: thank you for your detailed and well-written reply. I will pursue your remedies, but do you have any idea why Acronis cannot include a simple "disable" feature to a given backup task in the GUI?
I don't get why you can't just right-click on a backup task and mark it as "on hold" or "paused" or something similar? Seems simple to this humble user ...
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Edward, I agree that there should be better options provided within the application to remove the need for this type of solution to an easily fixable issue! I can only suggest using the Feedback tool in the GUI to make your views known directly to Acronis.
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Noted the feedback, thank you. :)
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