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Lowering backup priority (WAY DOWN)

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I didn't find an answer, hence I ask . . . [of course, I admit not looking at all 266 pages]

I have True Image set to do a backup daily at noon. I can't do it at midnight because I don't want to leave the PC on all night. Although it switches to Low Priority (according to the Log) almost immediately, it hogs so much of the machine that even the screensaver fish come to a halt. I don't care how long the backup takes, I just occasionally have reason to use the PC while the backup is going on. How do I set its priority WAY LOW? Using Task Manager every time while it's backing up isn't a very good option, if that's your suggestion.

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Don 94583

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Low priority won't stop it from using lots of resources if nothing else high priority is running. I assume your fish isn't set to run high priority.

The way Win handles disk tasks, you're going to get a slow down regardless of the priority setting you use. Even Windows will slog down a disk task if it has another disk task running. e.g., say you want to copy two large files to D: If you do this as one copy operation it might take 30 secs, but if you do it as two concurrent operations, it might take two or 3 minutes.

You can use Windows task scheduler to run ATI tasks. Win Task Scheduler can wake a PC from S2 or S3 standby -- a terrific advantage over ATI's built in scheduler. Instructions for this have been posted on the forum many times.

I believe you should be able to specify you want the machine to shutdown at the completion of the task so you won't have to let it run all night. I only run manual backups and the option is there for them.