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How to change options on existing backup job?

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I have two jobs: one that backs up the entire disk to an external hard drive on a weekly basis and another that runs nonstop to back up files to the cloud. I cannot find a way to modify the options for these jobs after they are created. By modifying, I mean changing the various options that were set when the job was created, not things that are in the program settings for Acronis itself.

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Jean, you should be able to click on the [Options] button for your Disk backup task in the ATI 2020 GUI (next to the Back up now button, provided the task is not active.

For the NSB task, you will probably need to pause or stop the task in order to change the options.  (I don't have / use NSB so haven't needed to try this action myself).

Pausing and suspending a nonstop backup does not present an Options button in the lower right corner the way it does for a full disk backup. An NSB seems to be a black box, which is not how I like my backup software.

Jean Thoensen wrote:

Pausing and suspending a nonstop backup does not present an Options button in the lower right corner the way it does for a full disk backup. An NSB seems to be a black box, which is not how I like my backup software.

Yes, nonstop is a strange beast. You have to restart it, cannon remember the process - could be a restart button, few months since I last had to do it (for some reason the backup decided to stop running). 

Ian