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Idle Computer and Acronis Backups

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I have a new HP Pavilion desktop with Acronis True Image 2009 installed; the backup settings schedule calls for backing up while the computer is left on overnight and untouched. The scheduled backups did not take place when schedule; they were scheduled at widely different times of the night.  Are there power management desktop settings that have to be a certain way in order for Acronis to do a scheduled backup on an idle computer?

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Hello TommyZ555,

Thank you for using Acronis Products

Acronis scheduler won't wake the computer from standby but the Windows embedded scheduler will. Therefore you can use the below instructions in order to execute tasks on schedule on a computer that you need to wake up from standby to run the task.

Please create a task with Windows Scheduler and call Acronis True Image Service using a command line like below where you fill in the path and filename of appropriate Acronis True Image Script file in place of the [bracketed portion]:

"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Acronis\TrueImage\TrueImageService.exe" /script:"[drive:path\scriptname.tis]"

Acronis True Image Script files for scheduled backups are stored in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Applicaton Data\Acronis\TrueImage\Scripts and have the extension "tis". To make sure that the necessary script will be selected you can edit it with Acronis True Image  Home 2009 and then identify it by modification date and time stamp.