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Is it ok to put my pc to sleep while a backup is running?

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I would like to know if it's safe to put my pc to sleep while a backup is running: will the backup continue without problems when I wake up the pc?

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It should be fine.  If the backup fails as a result, it should pick up again upon waking up, but may need to start over.

Personally, I use the option to not allow sleep to occur while the backup is running. The less interference with a running task, the better for reliability in the long run. Then, when it's done backing up, sleep should eventually occur on its own based on your system sleep settings.

If you want the system to sleep immediately after a backup job is run, you can copy the command suggested by 

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2090921/how-to-create-hotkeys-for-windows-sleep-and-shutdown.html

into a .txt file and save it as .bat. Then use it as a POST command in your backup job which should run it as soon as the backup is over.

Or, if you know that you want the machine to sleep at a specific time, and it's somewhere outside of the vinicinity of your backup jobs by a good margin, you could just schedule the machine to go to sleep at a set time every day (or night) using a Windows scheduled task.

Long story short, I wouldn't put the machine to sleep during a backup, unless you absolutely have to.  Instead, schedule it to occur when it's done, or change your backup schedule to another time where you don't need to put the machine to sleep right away.

You're welcome!  And found confirmation for you too :)

https://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATI2019/#7941.html

  • When a backup takes a long time, it may be interrupted if the computer goes into sleep or hibernation mode. To eliminate this situation, select the Prevent the computer from going to sleep/hibernate check box.

I have (at least once) put a computer to sleep while a backup was running.  It may depend on the type of backup, but I'm pretty sure the backup had to start over again from the beginning.

As Bobbo said, the "Prevent the computer from going to sleep option will keep your computer awake during the backup.  Then, without your scripting anything, your inactivity timer will kick in (assuming you haven't started doing something else) and your Power option put your computer to sleep.  It won't be as fast as the script Bobbo found in the PCWorld article, but it doesn't take any script.