I had a VBS scheduled to run at 12:01 AM each morning. At around 11:30 PM I edited the job within Reflect, to modify the schedule to run the job at 2:00 AM instead. As soon as I clicked Finish, I got the immediate Reflect countdown pop-up that the job was about to run.
I postponed it for an hour.
I've seen this problem before - since it was neither the new time of 2:00 AM, nor the old time of 12:01 AM, I'm not sure what this unexpected execution is. My guess is it's coming from the Windows 7 Task Scheduler which thinks that the "prior" 2:00 AM execution failed to run, so it is being started immediately. (Of course there was not supposed to be a prior 2:00 AM execution, but the Task Scheduler seems to think there should have been one.)
What is the best way to prevent this? I can't remember if the countdown window has an option to completely cancel the execution, but if not I guess I could just let the backup start and then hit the Cancel button to kill it.
Once you click postpone, as I did, is there a way to kill the pending job? I haven't found anywhere that tells me it's going to run again - it's sleeping "somewhere" but I don't know where. If there were a way to find this in Windows Task Scheduler I'd kill it there. Haven't seen any place in Reflect that shows a pending task is sleeping.
Since I didn't manage to be around at the right time, at 1:00 AM the pending backup executed.
And then at 2:00 AM, the new intended daily job ran.
I deleted the extra 1:00 AM backup that I didn't need.
So: how can I avoid this problem in the future?
Thank you.
I postponed it for an hour.
I've seen this problem before - since it was neither the new time of 2:00 AM, nor the old time of 12:01 AM, I'm not sure what this unexpected execution is. My guess is it's coming from the Windows 7 Task Scheduler which thinks that the "prior" 2:00 AM execution failed to run, so it is being started immediately. (Of course there was not supposed to be a prior 2:00 AM execution, but the Task Scheduler seems to think there should have been one.)
What is the best way to prevent this? I can't remember if the countdown window has an option to completely cancel the execution, but if not I guess I could just let the backup start and then hit the Cancel button to kill it.
Once you click postpone, as I did, is there a way to kill the pending job? I haven't found anywhere that tells me it's going to run again - it's sleeping "somewhere" but I don't know where. If there were a way to find this in Windows Task Scheduler I'd kill it there. Haven't seen any place in Reflect that shows a pending task is sleeping.
Since I didn't manage to be around at the right time, at 1:00 AM the pending backup executed.
And then at 2:00 AM, the new intended daily job ran.
I deleted the extra 1:00 AM backup that I didn't need.
So: how can I avoid this problem in the future?
Thank you.