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Roy22
October 30th, 2007, 05:42 PM
My PC (Win XP Pro) normally runs in a Power User account, without Admin rights for safety. I want to schedule Acronis to auto-backup to an external hard drive every night.

I would normally log in as an Administrator to load the software, afterwards logging out and returning to the Power User account for day-to-day use.

If I load the software under the Administrator account, and schedule the auto-backup whilst there, will this not take place once I've logged out of Admin?

Or should I load the software under the Admin account, logout, then run and schedule the auto-backup from within the Power User account? Not sure how this works?

shieber
October 31st, 2007, 08:16 AM
An alternative is to use the Windows Task Scheduler, which will let you specifically runthe task as any specific user, including one with Admin rights. Also the Windows Task Scheduler can wake you PC form Standby to run the task.

See post #3 in this thread:

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=189475