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Sharing backup plans and scheduling in dual boot systems

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I am running a dual boot system with Win 7 Pro 64 bit and Win XP Pro 32 bit in separate partitions.

There is a common Data partition which they can both access and also a drive containing the Acronis Secure Zone.

I have installed Acronis Backup 11.5 onto both Windows partitions, so that either of them can run it.

I then copied an existing backup plan, which carries out a disk level backup of the entire system, together with its schedules from the Win XP partition to the Win 7 Partition using Acronis export and import.

This has worked well and the result is that both partitions now run Acronis Backup and both run the same scheduled backups using the same common vault in the ASZ.

The only problem is that, with two instances of Acronis Backup on the machine, they are each unaware of the others scheduling.

So, on booting from, say, Win XP any scheduled backups might run; but, then, if I reboot into Win7 the same scheduled backups will also run under Win 7 - leaving two pretty similar sets of backups in the ASZ.

This doesn't, perhaps, greatly matter - but it would be nice if they could share their scheduling, so that any scheduled backup was only run once, irrespective of which version of Windows ran it.

Is it possible to do this?

Could the backup plans and scheduling in anyway be moved to the shared Data volume, to be accessed by either copy of Acronis Backup?

It might also mean that any edits made to the backup plan by either version of Windows would also show up in the other version of Windows.

Does anyone have any guidance on this?

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Hi!

There is no straightforward way to do this.

But I can suggest workaround.

You can create script that will check date of the latest backup in the ASZ and use this script as pre-backup command (in the backup options).
Script can do the following:
1. Check that there is no backup on current date in the ASZ (assuming that you back up machine on a daily basis)
2. If there is a backup on current date, script should fail (e.g. return non-zero value from bat-file)
3. Otherwise, script should be completed successfully and product will create machine backup

Use command "list backups --loc=atis:///asz --arc=your_archive_name --output=raw" to get list of backups in the ASZ.