What is an easy fast way to do manual backups?
I have not figured out how to do a manual backup other than to click through the entire menu of choices each time I want to do a backup. (I prefer manually triggered backups, rather than scheduled, for reasons not worth explaining). I know there is the "one touch" option, but I believe this backs up the whole drive every time. Is it possible to save settings so that I could open ATI, and just click one or two things, and then it would build on my prior backups with an incremental backup?
Thanks!
This is an modified extract from a April 2009 prior posting on the old forum.
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=239598
Question: I'm using TI 2009. Is there a way to create a desktop icon that will perform one of my tasks so I don't have to open TI ?
Support response:
Sure you can, all you have to do is create your Acronis task and run the task via a simple batch file.
Here are step-by-step instructions on how to create the batch file.
1. Please create a text document by means of Notepad. Place the following string inside of it:
"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Acronis\TrueImageHome\TrueImageHomeService.exe" /script:"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Acronis\TrueImageHome\Scripts\CURRENT SCRIPT.tib.tis"
2. Find the following path at your computer: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Acronis\TrueImageHome\Scripts
(The display below is XP so you may have to adjust the paths to fit your own location of Acronis Files. Searching on "Scripts" may be necessary to find the correct path.
3. Find the script that you created just now. (The file date & time can help you identify the correct script.) Copy the appropriate value (for example, B44A95F2-BA29-43C3-9F88-C2F566E5BCC1) and place it into the Notepad document instead of "CURRENT SCRIPT".
When done, the contents of your batch file will look like except the script numbers will differ. Be sure and include the both sets of quotation marks!
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Echo OFF
"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Acronis\TrueImageHome\TrueImageHomeService.exe" /script:"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Acronis\TrueImageHome\Scripts\F0D8AD53-0BF9-4671-8A95-3C9F1C341404.tib.tis"
EXIT
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4. Save the file to your desktop and rename it. The file should have .bat extension.
5. Click on the file and check the functionality of Acronis software.
Best regards, -- Dmitry Nikolaev
Note: this command string works also from a Windows Scheduled Task or the batch file can be run from the command lin.
Help - I can't get this to work! I think I have followed the GroverH post to the letter. Acronis TI opens when I click the icon, but nothing else happens. The script number is correct and I can run it from the Application Data --- Scripts file. I have TI Home 2010, build 7160 with Plus Pack on a Windows XP sp3 computer. My batch file, saved as a .bat to the desktop is:
Echo OFF
"C:\Program Files\Acronis\TrueImageHome\TrueImage.exe" /script:"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Acronis\TrueImageHome\Scripts\7BEDDC7D-2B9B-4739-B8F8-393F9A4F0CA8.tib.tis"
EXIT
Try this. The first part of the path is different in this one.
Echo off
"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Acronis\TrueImageHome\TrueImageHomeService.exe" /script:"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Acronis\TrueImageHome\Scripts\7BEDDC7D-2B9B-4739-B8F8-393F9A4F0CA8.tib"
Exit
Many thanks GroverH, now it works as advertised.
For two days I had been ignoring the 'Common Files' part. I wondered why I couldn't find TrueImageHomeService.exe!