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Badly designed ATI 202x UI

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I find it super-annoying that I can't modify any ATI backup setting without the device to which that setting refer being present and accessible!

E.g. if I want to stop my nightly backups to my home NAS (because I am on a trip and I know it won't be accessible for the next 2 weeks and I want to spare me the daily error emails that the nightly backup failed) I can't do that, because - as soon as I go to the backup's "Options" - the SW hangs/crashes or brings up an error message but refuses to open the option dialog.

Why does the device have to be accessible to see and modify these options? That's simply brain-damaged!

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Michael, this has been raised with Acronis numerous times and is awaiting for them to implement changes to allow for such tasks to be viewed / changed regardless of the remote NAS being available.

Please submit Feedback to Acronis using the tool in the ATI GUI to register your vote for this change to be implemented.

In the interim, you could add a Pre Command batch file to your backup task to test for the IP address of your NAS and only proceed with the backup if it is found.

An example of such a Pre Command batch file is below:

:: File Name = CheckIP.Bat
@echo off
:: ----------------------------------------------------------
:: ----- Set baseIP to the NAS IP address to be checked -----
:: ----------------------------------------------------------

set baseIP=192.168.0.29
set loopcount=20

:: Checking for active baseIP address on local network
:: errorlevel 0 = IP found / 1 = IP not found.

:loop
echo pinging %baseIP% for %loopcount% times
ping -n 1 -l 1 %baseIP% > nul
if %errorlevel%==1 goto next
@echo %baseIP% found active on network!
timeout /t 10
exit /b 0
:next
@echo %baseIP% not found active on network!
set /a loopcount=loopcount-1
if %loopcount%==0 goto exitloop
timeout /t 10
goto loop
:exitloop
if %errorlevel%==1 exit /b 1
exit /b 0
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Hello Michael ,

added your comment as a vote for the change request TI-170272 Allow changing the plan settings when the target location is not available. Thank you!