Wake from Sleep Preventing PC from Sleeping
I have a DVR running Windows 7 32 bit Ultimate, built around SageTV, which was set to go into sleep mode while waiting to record the next scheculed show.
After installing True Image Home 2012 the machine has been losing the ability to go to sleep.
The scheduled backup runs fine, although it does initially generate one error message. That has to do with not being able to access the primary/main backup file, but it's only transitory (i.e., the message gets logged but the backup proceeds normally, and concludes successfully). I suspect the error message is due to the backup files being located on a network share, and that network access is still "coming online" from being in sleep mode as True Image is launching. I've seen this behavior from Windows quite often when first accessing a network share on a recently-awoken computer.
Unfortunately, at some point the "wake from sleep" environment is being changed, because after two or three backups the network access error goes away and the machine never goes to sleep. I can fix the problem by rebooting the machine, which buys me another couple of days of appropriate behavior, but that's not a long term solution.
Is there a workaround for this problem? Or have I misconfigured something in True Image? I'd prefer to do my backups to the network share, but if all else fails I could consider backing up to a local drive. If my theory about Windows slow recovery of a sleeping network is correct, is there a way to configure True Image to wait for some interval after waking up before launching the backup process?
- Mark
