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Unscheduled Tasks in TI 2010 and 2014

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I have been using TI 2010 for years and it has saved my butt many times.

I am considering upgrading to 2014. One of the functions that I used by far the most was Tasks & log > Unscheduled tasks. I don't back up on a schedule, I backup a total image of the drive when I want to, i.e. I have defined certain Unscheduled tasks for backing up to different drives. In TI 2010 I can give the backup procedure a name such as "Backup Drive C To Drive E" or "Backup Drive C to Drive G", then I just select one of my predefined procedure names when I am ready to back up and away it goes. I have been looking at the 2014 manual and I don't see a function similar to Unscheduled tasks in 2014. Is there such a function in 2014 where I can select a predefined/custom named image backup as I did with TI 2010, and it does the job?

If not that is a deal breaker for me and I would stick with 2010. The Universal restore in 2014 is very, very attractive to me.

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This option continues to be available but just worded differently.

Any number of backup tasks are created as you desire for differet data selection and instead of using the default scheduled backet settings, you simply change the schedule to "Do not schedule".

So you would have a different task same as before except they would be labelled as "do not schedule"

http://forum.acronis.com/system/files/turn-off-scheduler.jpg

http://forum.acronis.com/system/files/turn-on-or-change-scheduler.jpg

In these videos, I show you how it could be done in a matter of a couple of minutes. Here's how I would do it: http://screencast.com/t/ycECd7agQK
I create a backup for drive C: to J: then another from E: to I: Both are not run on a schedule, but once set up can be run any time I desire by clicking the "Back up now" button next to them. These are partition backups, but I could have done full drive or a selection of files the same way.

Carl