Wait several minutes or disable sleep mode.
shutdown
Expected behaviour in currect product architecture. Schedule backups on system shutdown.
Symptoms
- You create a deployment task with the default option "Shut down" enabled for an Agent on Windows 8;
- After you perform a successful deployment, the Agent reboots instead of shutting down.
Cause
This is an irregular known issue.
Solution
As a workaround, please shut down the Agent machine manually (or through Remote Desktop).
Symptoms
- You scheduled the backup to run on 'On the system shutdown'
- Backup fails with the following message:
Backup scheduled on the system shutdown has failed.
Troubleshooting
Check the following system settings on the Agent machine to make sure that there are no factors preventing backup tasks from execution:
1) Open Windows Registry (press Win+R, type regedit and click OK to open) and check the following:
Introduction
If you want your Windows machine to turn off automatically after completing the backup job, you can set up automatic shutdown using native Windows commands.
Solution
- Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5: in the backup plan, open Backup options -> Pre/Post commands,
Acronis Cyber Protect 15, Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud: in the protection plan, go to Backup module, then to Backup options -> Pre/Post commands,