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What is the purpose of “clone settings”?

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I am running ATI 2021 on WIndoiws 11

I have 2 disks named WindowsC and WindowsD. I want to back them up daily, I created a backup called “WindowsC”. I specified the source (WindowsC) and the destination -- a folder on an external drive named ”WindowsC Backup” 

I scheduled the backup to run daily at 12:01AM. I set up the notifications tab to send me an eMail when the job ends. I ran the backup, got the eMail that the backup ended successfully. I was able to restore a file. Everything is good.

Now I want to backup my D drive. I cloned the WindowsC job and it was assigned a name (1)WindowsC. I immediately changed that to WindowsD. I change the source to the D drive, the destination to a “WindowsD Backup” folder on my external drive. I changed the schedule to 12:30AM. I didn’t change the notification tab at all. But when I sent a test message, the subject says “WindowsC” not "WindowsD". Doesn’t ATI know I just changed the backup name? Apparently not. I manually changed the text from %BACKUP_NAME% to “WindowsD”. 

I ran the WindowsD backup. It ended fine, but when I click on Recovery it says no backups are available. I’m guessing TIA is still confused about the backup name. 

So I removed that backup and instead of cloning WindowsC I created a new backup. I named it WindowsD, set the schedule for 12:30 and typed in the smtp stuff in the notifications tab. The test message now says “WindowsD”. I ran it and can restore files from it.

So, if after cloning a backup jab and changing some of parameters, like source, destination and schedule, it doesn’t work, what it the purpose of “clone settings”?  

 

 

 

 

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The honest answer to your question is mainly to try to save a minute or so of time but Acronis broke this option with ATI 2020 when they introduced .tibx files and haven't really fixed all the issues created!

Personally I have very rarely used the clone settings option as it is just as quick to create a new task.  If you have used the option to 'Save as default' for some of the key settings and are creating a task of the same type, then some of the work has already been done for you.

Thanks.  I was trying to save some time, specifically looking up and typing in the 12 character password for SMTP authorization. 

 

On the Notifications page, use the option to 'Save as default' and your SMTP credentials should be saved ready for the next time you create a task of the same type!

The latter point is a bit of a pain because if you save this detail for a Disk backup task then go to create a Files backup task, it forgets the saved data!