How to start a backup then queue up more backups
Before upgrading to True Image 2014, if I pressed the Backup Now button to start a backup job on one of my backups, I could immediately press the same button on other backups, and they would be queued up, waiting for the previous job to finish before automatically starting.
This functionality appears to have been removed in Acronis True Image 2014. After I start a backup, pressing the Backup Now button on another backup gives me an error message, saying "Failed to run now: task not executed".
Is this no longer possible to do in Acronis TI-2014? I really need to run several backups overnight, and getting up in the middle of the night to check if the fist has finished so I can start the next, is simply unacceptable. If queuing up backups is still supported please tell me the secret of how to do this.
Gary,
I would start with by running the TI Cleanup utility (signature link 4 below) and a fresh install of TI. 2014 should work same as prior version for this purpose.
Noel,
Post the contents of your post command. It should be a batch file and the contents should be the entire command of the shortcut created by the task be be run next.
GH7. How to create a desktop backup shortcut from an existing backup task.
Thank you so much, GroverH, whilst that is what I thought I had done, on checking, I had incorrectly created the batch files!
As usual, I am very grateful for your generous help. Goodness knows where I would be without you, not an Acronis User, that is for sure!
Regards....Noel
Noel,
I added a link to my posting #2. The link picture shows at the bottom the contents of the shortcut which needs to be included in the file.
Gary,
If you still looking for a solution, I have some other thoughts I will add later.
Gary,
My suggestion to your first posting above.
1. Run TI Cleanup utility and do a new fresh install.
2. If that does not fix, then another possibility is that a delay between the manual starting of the next task might help.
You could try this from either one batch file to run all tasks, or you could create a batch file to run each task and each task would have the delay.
So, to run a backup, instead of clicking the "backup now" option inside each non-scheduled task,
you would click the pre-created batch file to run either each or all tasks.
Here is one example of one batch to run multiple backups.
@Echo off
Echo Five minute delay before allowing Task two (2) to start.
%WINDIR%\SYSTEM32\TIMEOUT.EXE /T 300Echo Starting task Two (2)
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Acronis\TrueImageHome\TrueImageLauncher.exe" /script:6000578E-8EDD-47E5-AED9-CC875B5871ACEcho Five minute delay before allowing Task Three (3) to start.
%WINDIR%\SYSTEM32\TIMEOUT.EXE /T 300Echo Starting task three (3)
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Acronis\TrueImageHome\TrueImageLauncher.exe" /script:7000578E-8EDD-47E5-AED9-CC875B5871ACEcho Five minute delay before allowing Task Four (4) to start.
%WINDIR%\SYSTEM32\TIMEOUT.EXE /T 300Echo Starting task four (4).
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Acronis\TrueImageHome\TrueImageLauncher.exe" /script:5000578E-8EDD-47E5-AED9-CC875B5871AC@exit
Link to show how to use the backup task to create the backup shortcut. Data from the shortcut can be copied into the batch file.
GH7. How to create a desktop backup shortcut from an existing backup task.
Note, this is a special purposes situation and not a normal procedure. The example shown is for Win7. This example not applicable for XP as there is no timeout command.