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Johan,
Thanks for your reply. One minute "lead time" seems to be enough.
Bill Zigrang
You are welcome.
Its unfortunate that Symantec's programmers didn't program Ghost and its other products with the ability to wake the computer out of sleep mode to execute a backup or scan, or to just rely on the built in XP Scheduler function. My computer draws 6 amps or around 660 Watts per hour, 15.8KW per day if left running 24/7. At 6 cents per KW the cost is $1.00 per day, $30 per month, and $360 per year. That would be approx 20% of my annual electricity use, not counting printer, router, and LCD display. As a result I have my computer's power options set to go to sleep mode after 30 minutes of inactivity and we manually put it to sleep just before retiring in the evening. As it is now, even with a fast AMD 4600 Processor, 2048 MB of memory, and the fastest DSL service available here at my home (760 - No fiber available just copper), everything slows perceptibly when Ghost begins its backup during the day when I'm likely to be on the computer rather than in the wee hours of the morning when I'm most likely asleep and so is the computer. I suggest that Symantec become a bit more "Green" in its programming design and allow the end users to utilize Windows Scheduler which makes it possible for the computer to "Wake up" to perform the scheduled task.
Thanks for listening.
I’ve passed your concerns and your request on to our developers. Now we can only wait and see what comes forth.
(My prior, more detailed, post got no replies, so here is a stirpped-down version)
I am trying to back my computer up with Norton Save and Restore V.2 from Norton SystemWorks 2008 Premier; I want to run my backups with the computer in standby (sleep) mode. Thus, I have added a scheduled start to Norton Save and Restore under Windows Scheduler at the appropriate times. ? Is it necessary to use Windows Scheduler (in addition to scheduling NSR backup) to perform a scheduled backup in sleep mode??
NSR will not wake the machine from Sleep mode as it does not have the ability to do so. So yes, you would need to have something do that. If Windows Scheduler can do that, great. The machine would need to be up and fully operational for a time that is long enough for NSR to recognize that the scheduled time just rolled around, do the backup, and a moment or two after the backup for everything to settle back down. If you don’t get the lead time and the post backup time long enough, I could see that things would not work as expected. NSR’s scheduling, rightly or wrongly, assumes that the machine is fully operational, i.e. running normally, drives running, etc., when it needs to take the backup.