Scheduling Backup

[kazmax]

Firstly, the new Drive Backup 8.51 has a very nice user interface - a big improvement on earlier versions. However I have a couple of queries.

Scheduling
I have created schedules for backing up my PC, but they don't run. The user help is very poor on this subject - it tells you how to create a schedule but gives no clue about how the schedule takes place. Are you supposed to leave Drive Backup running permanently, or is there another utility which we haven't been told about?

Command Line Operation
Related to the above. Say I create a script and save it to a file. Exactly how do I go about launching that backup job if Drive Backup isn't running?

Andrew
:confused:

[xellos]

Hello,

Paragon Drive Backup uses windows scheduling services to run planned tasks.

When planning a task Drive Backup will create a psl-script containing your information (what to backup, destination, ...) and add an entry to the windows task planer. Then you can close the software - there is no need to leave it open. When its time the backup should start automatically.

Have a look at windows task planer. Their you will find an entry of your planned backup.

The command should look like



"C:\Program Files\Paragon Software\Drive Backup 8.51 Personal\Program\scripts.exe"
-Wno --alternate --graph --multiple
"C:/Program Files/Paragon Software/Drive Backup 8.51 Personal/scripts/scr_181007133716562.psl"

...in one line.

You see, the backup script get parsed and executed by "scripts.exe".

In case your planned task does not run, I would try to execute this command manually and check whats happening.

regards,
xellos

[kazmax]

Thanks for that. I hadn't realised this was managed by the Windows task scheduler, that wasn't mentioned in the help file.

Andrew