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Utility that allows you to manage scheduled tasks in Acronis products

Introduction

Acronis Scheduler Manager is a command line utility that allows you to manage scheduled tasks and Acronis Scheduler2 Service itself.

Solution

Managing Acronis Scheduler2 Service

• schedmgr service install
• schedmgr service uninstall
• schedmgr service start
• schedmgr service stop
• schedmgr service restart

Getting a report

• Download either the EXE file or ZIP archive;
• Open command prompt (Start -> Run -> cmd);
• Run the following command in the folder the file was saved to:
  schedmgr get report > schedreport.txt
• Provide schedreport.txt

Getting a log

• Download either the EXE file or ZIP archive;
• Open command prompt (Start -> Run -> cmd);
• Run schedmgr.exe
• Enable flags using the following command:
  set logflags support

• Reproduce the problem and provide the log file

The log file is named schedul2.log and placed to the \Program Files\Common Files\Acronis\Schedule2 folder. It is recommended to turn off logging after troubleshooting with the following command: set logflags 0

The list of available commands is below:

• set logflags -1 (enable all flags)
• set logflags 0 (disable all flags)
• set lf_XXX on|off (enable/disable the XXX flag)

set logflags support =

• set logflags -1
• set lf_registry off

Managing scheduled tasks

Acronis Scheduler Manager allows to manage scheduled tasks as well. See the examples below.

To get a list of scheduled tasks:

get list

To delete all scheduled tasks:

task zap

To run a task:

task run

You can get more information on these and other commands using help command.

Managing scheduled tasks on a remote machine

You can connect to a remote machine using the remote [host] command. Note that Acronis Remote Agent must be installed on that machine.

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