How to shutdown after last unscheduled task is executed?
Dear Support and All,
I installed on my laptop with OS Windows 7 Ultimate x64, a full license of Acronis True Image 2010 Home, version #7046. It works great, but I have a situation that I need some help.
I have around a dozen of unscheduled tasks covering several folders to be backuped. On a regular base, I start the tasks corresponding to the folders that I know had changed. After I start first task it will have the status "Running". I hide it and start the remain tasks that meanwhile would show "Queued" on status. I want to shutdown the system after the last queued has been executed. Time would depend on the number of tasks to be executed, but it will take at least a couple of hours. However, only first task has the check box "Shutdown after backup completed" and I could not find any solution to configure the last queued task to do the shutdown.
So I created an extra backup task ("Shutdown task") that only copies a small dummy text file, and executes at post processing the shutdown command. I though that if I would select this extra task always as last task, my problem would be solved.
Unfortunately, this solution doesn't work, because when first task completes, it didn't execute the next queued task, but instead, jumps immediately to this last one, that shutdown PC. Consequently, remain queued tasks are not executed. I already tried to rename this last task, so it is showed in first, last and at middle of existing list of unscheduled tasks, but didn’t solved my problem.
Could someone supply extra information of how the queued tasks are ordered, or how to define an unscheduled task to shutdown the system, at the end of a batch of other unscheduled tasks.
Thank you very much for your help,
Antonio Nuno
Minisoft
Portugal
Hi GroverH,
Thank you for your post.
However, as I wrote on the post, that is exactly what I do. Last task has the post processing command shutdown. After first task, Acronis jumps all pending queued tasks and executes always that last task, shuting down the PC, but without executing those tasks in the middle!!!
Did you try.
Just add the shutdown command to the last task which is actually performing its backup function.
You do not need an extra task