Can scheduler pop up and alert me?

[agbates]

I've got a backup task scheduled to backup my entire drive and dump it onto a USB drive. The problem is I do not keep the USB drive attached all the time. Is their a way to have the scheduler pop-up when it runs the job and if the disk is not plugged in, display a pop-up saying "Plug in the disk"?

I did a test to see if it would display any sort of an error message when it came time to run the task, but nothing happened. It did report a user name or password error though in the log.

[Acronis Support]

Hello agbates,

Thank you for choosing Acronis Disk Backup Software (http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/).

I'm afraid that Acronis True Image 9.0 doesn't support pop-up notification. This feature will be probably implemented in the future builds/versions of Acronis True Image 9.0. I'm sorry but the exact time-frame for that is not decided yet.

If you want us to change the behaviour of Acronis True Image in any way or add some new features to this product, please feel free to post any of your suggestions in Acronis True Image WISH-LIST thread (http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=85595).

Thank you.
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Tatyana Tsyngaeva

[MKairys]

It's possible you could use a pre-backup command to do this: have it put up a message box, or just run a batch file with "pause" in it. The question is whether TI will already have analyzed the available drives and partitions before the pre-backup command is run and concluded the external drive is not available.

If so, you could write a batch file or program that does the notification and then runs the TI job, and schedule that with the Windows task scheduler. More information on this approach is here (http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=106937).