No Automatic Retry - Any Options?
I have a situation where if I'm at work I want to backup my laptop every day at 11, but if I'm not I just want the backup to fail and not retry again. That is, the backup destination is only available at work and I have a laptop. I have a script that executes as a pre command to bring the destination drive online, and that works if I'm work, but obviously won't if I'm not. So if I'm home, like on a holiday, I don't want Acronis repeatedly retrying to run the backup. If it fails, I just want that one attempt made, yet I can't find any option on error handling not to retry. Is there one? Any ideas?

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Thanks. I was actually looking at a copy of TI 2011 when asking the question and it the option to specify the retry attempts isn't in there as far as I could tell, so it must have been added at some point. One question. The reference article from Acronis on error handling says at the bottom:
This option is not available, when you back up your data to a USB flash drive or USB hard drive.
We're getting ready to specify that our primary backup medium is a new USB 3.0 5 TB EHD. Is this really true, that we can't specify the number of retry attempts, or anything else in the error handling part of TI 2015, if we use the USB 3.0 drive?
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Recheck the optiions listed in the upper right corner of the program. One of the prior version had this option there.
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This is part of what I was thinking but there was still more I believe but not sure......
https://kb.acronis.com/content/16402
Many how to's in this listing
https://kb.acronis.com/content/13414
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Thanks. Is it really true that error handling in TI 2015 can't be altered if you use an USB connected external hard drive as a destination drive? If so, any idea why?
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Based on your message, I did a scheduled 2015 to a usb3 external docking.
Task error handling set to 1 try.
Task errored out with an error display message and the error message of failure needed manua removal by clicking the cancel button,
after which there were no more retries.
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Sounds good. Thanks for taking the time to test it out.
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