Which queued backup is active
On the main UI screen all my backups are listed. If I have several backups queued, and one of them is in the process of backing up, is there any way on the UI screen (e.g., icons) to tell which of the queued backups is currently active without clicking on all the backups to see which it is?
Hello!
Please also refer to the following user-guide: https://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATI2024/#39310.html…
Where it says queued means the backups are in the queue waiting for another activity to finish. After that happens the status will change to : In progress.
Jose, the user guide procedure does not accomplish what I'm after. I'm looking for a way to tell which of several queued backups listed on the right side of the main UI screen is the one currently backing up. As Steve says, there does not seem to be a way to determine the currently active backup WITHOUT clicking on each one. Note one does not see the indicator "In process" until you click on that particular backup. One must click on them all one at a time in order to see which one has that "In progress" indicator.
I suggest a better method would be to add another icon just for queued backups. Right now the right pointing arrow inside a circle icon is used for BOTH queued and in progress backups. Each condition should have its own district icon.
If you have 15 or 20 backups all queued waiting for, say, a cloud backup to finish; and then once the cloud is done, it is a PIA to have to click on every backup to see which is currently active.
Sandy, it turns out that it was a very easy addition to the MVP Assistant so this will be available in the next released version (2.7.5) which should be available very soon.
The Acronis Configuration page, which lists all backup tasks in one tree, will indicate Running and Queued status. In order to see this, the Scheduler Manager must be installed (from Settings) and it may require a page refresh if the state changes after you are showing that screen.
Sandy, thinking laterally about this question - you could achieve something that would help you identify the active backup by using a fairly simple Pre Command for each of your tasks.
Create a simple ActiveTask.BAT file with the following line (adjusted for yourself).
echo %date% %time% Backup %1 is active: >> C:\users\smiths\desktop\ActiveTask.txt
Next, add in a Pre Command to call the above ActiveTask.BAT file which in turn will create a text file on your desktop with the name of your backup task (passed as a parameter to the batch file).
The ActiveTask.txt file on your desktop should show similar to below (with your own task name used).
Sandy, version 2.7.5 of the MVP Assistant is now released and will show you what you want on a single screen.
Thank you Bruno for creating this function. I only wish I could use it.....<grin>.
I am doing something wrong, but for the life of me I can't figure out what. I have spent 2 hours reading everything I can find that I thought might give me the clue, but to no avail.
I can run this latest version of MVPAssistant. One thing I read was that "schedmgr.exe" is required. I downloaded that from inside settings, and inputted its location in the "Locations" input box on the "Settings" screen. Restarted MVPAssistant. When I go to the Acronis Config screen, it tells me that I have the wrong version of schedule manager ("ATI 2018 or earlier"). I'm pretty sure I downloaded the current version of the schedule manager (249,856 bytes).
I can't figure out what to do next.
Sandy, try downloading schedmgr.exe from this direct link: https://download.acronis.com/support/schedmgr.exe
The correct file size should be 852 kb for version 8.0.1.11072 for ATI 2019 and later.
Nope.....I still get the 244kb version. I can find no version number in the properties of the executable.
I may have got it to run.....
To get the version 8.0.1.11072 (852kb), I eventually clicked on the link: "Users of Acronis True Image 2019 use this download link instead" in the Schedule Manager documentation. I replaced the 244kb version I had been downloading using all the other links, and now I get "8,0,1,11072 (ATI 2019 and later)" displayed on the MVPAssistant screen. Still no workie. The documentation says to run MVPAssistant as an Administrator. I haven't been doing this because I am the only user on the system and my Userid has Administrator privileges all the time; so I didn't think I needed something more specific than that. I created a shortcut for MVPAssistant anyway, selected "Run as Administrator", and ran that. SUCCESS (I think).
Does the new function added for my situation add this "(Running)" to the currently active task. That's what I see, so I guess it's working.
Does the new function added for my situation add this "(Running)" to the currently active task. That's what I see, so I guess it's working.
Yes. I would embed an image but the forum isn't letting me again today!
Here's what I see now.....
Sandy, it's not you, it's me. I looked at the code and had a typo where I check which version of the Scheduler Manager to download. It worked on my system, but failed on yours. Version 2.7.5.1 is up now. Thanks for making me find it.
It shows (Running) for the currently running backup task. It will show (Queued) for any queued task. Please note that the status will not change in realtime; you would need to Refresh the window.
Glad it is now working for you.
Thanks for making me find it.
Now we're even......hahahahahahaha
FYI, I just discovered something about this... it only works for tasks started by schedule. I was just checking my Monday weekly backups which I do not start by schedule, but rather through the command line. In this case, the Scheduler Manager is completely ignorant and so my code cannot detect running or queued backup tasks.
Unless/until I find another way, I'll just have to leave it with this limitation. It should be sufficient for most.
Bruno, hopefully if a user starts a backup task manually they will remember which task it was. You have answered the original question here about queued tasks which typically are scheduled.
Using a Pre Command (as mentioned earlier in this topic) would handle all circumstances but may not be needed by most users. It works for me as I have done the same for both Acronis and Macrium tasks which lets me check that they are running as expected on their schedules.
I presume it is too much to expect Acronis to add the relatively simple change so that on the main UI screen a user can tell the difference between a queued backup task and the currently active backup task. It seems silly to me that the same icon (blue circle with right pointing arrow) is used for 2 different conditions. To me it seems fundamental to have one icon that indicates the active task, and other icon that indicates any queued task.
Thanks to Bruno, I have a work around that solves my immediate need. (It's also prompted me to learn how to use MVPAssistant.....quite a nice piece of work!).