Schedules & running unattended
Rhythms, conditions, missed runs, pausing, and backups with nobody signed in.
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The six schedule rhythmsEvery few hours, daily, weekly, monthly, at sign-in or once: exactly when each fires, and how to check the next five runs before you save.Schedule conditions: battery, wake, quiet hours and full-screen appsThe conditions under a job's schedule, their defaults, and the order the agent checks them in when a run is due.Missed runs: what happens when the PC was offThe PC was off, asleep or on battery at 02:00. How the agent catches up, when a run counts as missed, and how you find out.Pausing scheduled backupsHold every scheduled backup for 1, 4 or 24 hours from the notification-area icon, skip one job's run tonight, or pause the backup that is running now.Plugging in a drive does not start a backupThere is no plug-in trigger. A schedule that waits for the drive gets you the same result, plus three quick ways to back up the moment you plug in.Keeping the PC awake for a backupWhat GBM AI does by itself to keep the PC awake while a backup runs, how it wakes a sleeping PC, and the Windows settings that decide whether it can.Advanced schedules: two rhythms in one jobA weekly full and a nightly incremental in the same job, one chain, nothing to keep in step. Home and Pro.Running backups with nobody signed inService mode: one switch installs a Windows service, so jobs run machine-wide before anyone signs in, with the credentials you saved.After a backup finishes: sleep, hibernate or shut downLet the last backup of the day put the PC to sleep or shut it down, after a sixty-second countdown.