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Scheduler not working

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Hi,

I purchased the Acronis 3-pack 2020 edition and have been using it reasonably successfully for a couple of years now.  Two of my users upgraded to the latest Acronis 2020 version and their scheduler stopped working.  The one device that wasn't upgraded still works perfectly.  I rolled the other two devices back to the vanilla 2020 edition (Uninstall and reinstall) but the problem persists.

You can schedule a task and the program shows it being scheduled.  Close the UI and re-open and its no longer scheduled.  If you use the command line tool and issue the command to list tasks, there are none present.  It's like the scheduler simply isn't saving the scheduled tasks at all.

I have already tried deleting and re-creating the tasks.  I also tried creating tasks with different names.  I have tried with scheduler service on the default setting as well as set to "Log on as the user".  Nothing seems to solve it.

Has anyone come across this - and are there any suggestions??

The new version is too expensive for us - so if this can't be solved I'm going to reluctantly need to look at competing products - and I don't want to do that as have been using Acronis for nearly 15 years now.

Thanks.

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Andrew, there are no known issues with the Acronis Scheduler for ATI 2020 or other versions that I am aware or being reported in the forums.

The final build #38600 for ATI 2020 has been available since January 2021 and fixes security issues such as bringing TLS 1.2 for email notifications.

The key reasons why the scheduler may not work correctly are:

Acronis not installed from an Administrator account and therefore doesn't have the required authorities & privileges it needs.

See KB 60915: Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office, Acronis True Image: repairing program settings - for more information.

Security applications are blocking the scheduler and preventing it from updating the required internal structures for scheduling tasks.

See the following KB documents related to this aspect:

KB 36429: Acronis Software: exclude program folders and executables from antivirus and other security programs

KB 46430: Acronis Software: Making Acronis Products Compatible with Antivirus Software