Backup when computer is asleep

[Carson Dyle]

I just started using Windows 7 backup and have it scheduled to run at 5AM.

But I can see now that the only time that it has run is when I happened to be using the computer at 5AM. I assume it's not running on other days because the computer is asleep.

How do you work around this, other than keeping the computer from sleeping?

 

[corkyg]

The computer can't backup and be asleep. So, you have to schedule it. How important is sleep? Mine never sleeps - but I physically turn the monitor off when I am not present.

Also, is it necessary to back up daily? I do it weekly and it serves me just fine. I have it run a virus scan SUnday morning while I am at church. That works. AV definitions come every day at 0400.

Schedule your computer activities around yours.

 

[Carson Dyle]

The computer can't backup and be asleep. So, you have to schedule it.

Schedule what? The backup job is scheduled.

How important is sleep? Mine never sleeps - but I physically turn the monitor off when I am not present.

I dunno. With an SSD system drive it takes only about a second for the computer to wake up, so it seems like something of a waste to not allow it to sleep.

Also, is it necessary to back up daily? I do it weekly and it serves me just fine.

I'd just as soon not have the potential of losing six days of work, even if it were only email messages and a few spreadsheet edits. Running a scheduled backup job isn't exactly like busting rocks with a sledgehammer. Running it daily is no more work for me than running it once a month. The only real resource used are a little power and some disk space.

I have it run a virus scan SUnday morning while I am at church. That works. AV definitions come every day at 0400.

Schedule your computer activities around yours.

If the computer is going to sleep after 20 or 30 minutes of inactivity, I'd have to either launch it manually or else schedule it to run when I know I'd be at the computer. I don't have nearly that set of a schedule, plus I'd prefer that it run while I'm not using the PC.

 

[theevilsharpie]

The Windows task scheduler has an option to wake the computer to perform the job. Enable it, and the backup should function if the computer is in standby.

 

[Carson Dyle]

The Windows task scheduler has an option to wake the computer to perform the job. Enable it, and the backup should function if the computer is in standby.

Found it. Thanks. (Why isn't this setting anywhere in the backup configuration itself?)

 

[oynaz]

Found it. Thanks. (Why isn't this setting anywhere in the backup configuration itself?)

Because Microsoft tends to make interface decisions using a blindfold and a shovel.