Schedule

You can schedule your backups to run daily, weekly, monthly or whenever you like automatically. The scheduler runs an XML definition file, VBScript or MS-DOS batch file.

Note: Macrium Reflect uses the Windows Scheduler service so you need to ensure that this has been activated in Windows.

You can schedule XML definition files, VBScript files or MS-DOS files by either right clicking on the file you wish to schedule in Macrium Reflect and selecting 'Schedule' from the menu, or click the  icon in the relevant section.

You will then be presented with the following dialog:

Note: Backup type choice is not available in the Free Edition.

 

 

Select the options you require as follows:

Action

Description

Backup type

Select Full, Incremental or Differential depending on the type of backup your require

Run as user / password

You can configure the task to run as a different user, however they must have Administrator privileges.

Task Name

Enter a textual description that can be used to identify this task in the Windows Scheduler

Click Next

Select how often you would like the task to run. Options are Daily, Weekly, Monthly, One Time Only, When my computer starts and At log on

Click Next

You can now configure specifically when you would like the task to run. The dialog above shows the weekly view. Other dialogs may differ slightly.

When you are happy, click Next

This dialog shows a summary of the scheduled task.

Review the changes and click Finish.

A task will then be added to the Windows scheduler and will be run as required.