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backup scheduler - Paolo Albera - 2025-07-25

Hello, I have a problem: when a PC is turned off for a day due to the operator's absence, the next day when the PC is turned on, the scheduled backup for the previous day starts immediately, occupying the PC. Is it possible to tell the scheduler not to execute the missed scheduled backup if the previous backup was not performed?

thank you!

Paolo

RE: backup scheduler - wila - 2025-07-25

Hello Paolo,

Thanks for your question.
Your question makes a lot of sense to me and I certainly like the request.
As for "is this currently possible"? The answer sadly is "not at the moment".

I have logged a feature request for this on your behalf.

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Wil

RE: backup scheduler - Paolo Albera - 2025-09-03

(2025-07-25, 15:40:32)wila Wrote: Hello Paolo,

Thanks for your question.
Your question makes a lot of sense to me and I certainly like the request.
As for "is this currently possible"? The answer sadly is "not at the moment".

I have logged a feature request for this on your behalf.

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Wil
Hi,
Just wondering if you’ve had a chance to consider this request for an upcoming update?
Thanks again!

RE: backup scheduler - wila - 2025-09-03

Hi Paolo,

We have a ticket open for it as a feature request, so it will certainly be considered.
But we can't currently make any statements about upcoming features nor when they are released.
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Wil

RE: backup scheduler - Paolo Albera - 2026-01-15

Hi Wil! Any updates for this ticket request?

Thank you
paolo

RE: backup scheduler - wila - 2026-01-15

Hi Paolo,

It's a feature request, not a bug. So in principle the earlier statement still holds...

Having said that, you're in luck as I could make some time available for your feature request today. 
It really isn't as simple as it seems. For example if you've got a couple of jobs queued that are scheduled to run at the same time, then the first job will run, but the second one then ends up skipped, because of this setting. And some more shenanigans.
So it took quite a while to get it right and a whole bunch of testing.
But.. it seems to work now as it should.

I'll be sending you an email with a download link for a private version once it all passes testing down here.

It works as follows:

In order to skip any missed jobs that Vimalin tries to execute, follow these steps:

Shut down the Vimalin application if it runs.

Go to the following location on your disk:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Vimalin\Config

Where <username> is your Windows username such as paolo

Then open the file Vimalin.ini with a plain text editor such as notepad and add the following line in the [base] section.

Code:
vimalin.SkipMissedJobs=true


It might take up to 15 minutes before that change is read by the worker process as changes in this particular file are not immediately read.
Although a reboot of course also takes care of that.

But after that it should no longer try to run jobs that have been scheduled but not yet run.

Note that the job has to be set at least 7 hours in the past in order to be skipped. If the job was supposed to run within the last 7 hours then it will still run as if the SkipMissedJobs setting wasn't set.

   

The final test just passed, so I'll be sending you the download link.
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Wil

RE: backup scheduler - Paolo Albera - 2026-01-15

Ok Wil, as soon as I can I'll try and let you know. For now, thank you.


Paolo