Scheduling a Task

You can automate creating images by making a task at a scheduled time for unattended execution. When Active@ Disk Image is executing a scheduled task it runs without user interaction and does not have a GUI interface. If the execution started when a user was logged on, a console window will be shown displaying the progress of the operation executed. You do not need to be logged on in order to execute a scheduled task. If the execution has started when a user is not logged on the above mentioned console window will not appear – Disk Image will continue running until the task is finished.

Scheduled backups use a different schema of naming the images. Every image created automatically is placed in a folder named Backup - <DATETIME> under the main backup folder. For example, if the backup location is C:\Backups and the backup name is DiskImage, the scheduled backup files created on September 11, 2007 at 3:24pm will be placed in folder C:\Backups\DiskImage\Backup-2007-09-11-1524. Each scheduled backup may have several copies created at a different time as scheduled, each with its own timestamp. If two copies of a backup happen to have the same timestamp, the second copy will have “(1)” added to the backup name, i.e. C:\Backups\DiskImage\Backup-2007-09-11-1524(1).

You may control how many previous copies of scheduled backups you want to keep. It is configurable in the Scheduling tab of the Settings dialog. Selecting 0 means that only the most recent copy will be kept. The previous copies of scheduled backups are erased only after the current backup is successfully created.

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See Also

Tasks Dialog

Scheduling a Task

Choosing Account Information

Confirming Task Details

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