Scheduling Tasks with Enhanced Write Filter Drives

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Hello,

The PCs in our Industrial machinery have the Windows system disk protected by an enhanced write filter. This means that any changes the user tries to make to the system disk are temporary unless these changes are committed. Upon restart each time, the drive will automatically reimage itself back to its original configuration.

I noticed when scheduling a backup task with Management Console, as long as the PC remains ON, the task will run fine, but if the power is cycled or lost, then the script is gone and the tasks don't run. I have to assume the Acronis software sends a script to some location, but because of the restart and the way EWF works, the script is wiped out. Does anyone know where this script exists in the system drive after scheduling? If so, is the script on the remote PC, Admin PC or both?

I haven't tested Group Server yet, but I think it will work the same way. It appears the software sends the script after being scheduled, instead of when it has to run. In this situation, I have to reschedule all tasks over each time and its kind of a pain if and when this happens. My only solution is to add an uninterruptable power supply to each machine, but this also has its time limits. Pre/Post commands don't help either in this situation because the Acronis script is left intact after the task has been deleted.

Any feedback would be great!

Sun, 03/13/2011 - 23:56
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The script is on the machine with Agent. With group server there may be a chance (I mean, i don't know exactly if it works in that way) that GS will detect that agent has no task that it should have, and redeploy the task on it.
I assume that 'original configuration' of the disks has Agent installed, but no scheduled tasks.

Mon, 03/14/2011 - 05:45
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Yes, the Agent is commited as part of the image, so only the tasks disappear after reboot with EWF. I think I will create a program to copy the Acronis scripts and logs folder to the data drive. The data drive has no EWF. If I detect the scripts and logs are missing on the system drive, then I copy them back to the system drive. Hopefully this works without any complications.

Mon, 03/14/2011 - 15:06
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Ok, so I wrote a vb script to copy the scripts back after the reboot with EWF. The managements console is unable to recognize the copied scripts, so there is more to this than just coping the script files. I did get a support ticket and Acronis mentioned this is not possible to do. It is on there to do list, probably in ABR11. So basically I have to run a check weekly on the scheduled tasks, and reschedule them if the task isn't present due to reboot or poweroutage.

Wed, 03/30/2011 - 17:43