[SOLVED] Scheduled job starts randomly.

ATIH b5518
I encounter a specific bug on one system.
installed ATIH 2016 (no previous ATIH existed anytime)
Planned backup job is set for each day at 5 AM.
The backup job will start on different time than the set one.
Not reproducible on other computers where ATIH 2015 existed with scheduled jobs. Cannot try on a "fresh" system atm.
Hope you can help me. It is vital that the backup does not start "in the middle of the day" as the impact on performance is huge.
Since I made the initial backup manually ATIH 2016 never started a backup at 5 AM.
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Karl,
How many hours difference is there between your scheduled time and the time it runs?
Are you using the German language build or English one?
Which timezone from GMT/UTC are you in
I assume your PC clock is correct? I only ask because I have a On-the-Go version of Android and that consistently alters my PC clock on shutdown to US time.
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Hi all,
the timezone is GMT +2. Clock is correct. This night Acronis did not run any job. Now that I launched Acronis and Grovers mentioned tool, the backup job started immediately.
I cannot see any job in the Windows Task Planner. Things go very wrong :/. I never had such an issue with planned jobs.
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Hi Grover, you found the possible issue. The option "start backup when computer is idle" is set.
This is quite strange. When does ATIH 2016 consider the computer to be idle? I would like to refer to Microsoft planned tasks like defrag etc. that run perfectly using such settings. I don't expect the regarding computer to be not idle at that set time.
Could anyone from Acronis please confirm if this option is bit too picky on the parameters to determine when a computer is "idle". I mean basically anytime a Windows based computer is doing something. ;)
Quite the opposite as pointed out the job started after launching ATIH 2016 UI when the computer was definetely not idle :). This is awkward.
Refer settings in the attachment
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For what its worth, manu users have reported that backups won't run when this item is checked as the computer is neve idle.
Just be sure you check each task that you schedule to make sure this setting is always unchecked.
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Thanks Grover, the job ran last night after unchecking this option. I will raise this in a seperate thread.
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