VVscheduler Question

[Guest]

Hi,

I am testing your VV Pro and like it so far.

But I have a question. I'd like VV Pro to wake my Vista based PC from hibernation in the night, do some sync work and then go to sleep again.

I can not get this configured.

1) Do I need to keep run VV pro to do this? Or at least now that I have to OK the pop-up that I am evaluating the product? I assume thi swill go away when I purchase a licence. Correct?

2) I set up two profile to run, I launch the first at 4:00am, the second at 4:01pm with option /wait (the two are different, one with, the other without archiving option). Is this the correct way to do it or can I launch them together?

3) BIGGEST Issue of all: the PC wakes up at 4am, starts the profiles but can not finish them beacuse VISTA has this setting that if the PC wakes up from hibernate and there is no interaction with it, it goes back to sleep after 2 minutes (this is documented). What can I do so that the VV pro profiles (that actually run) are treated such that VISTA does not think nothing is being done?

Would much appreciate any help.

Thanks, Peter

[TGRMN Software]

Hello Peter

thank you for evaluating ViceVersa PRO.

[Guest]

Thanks for responding quickly.

In the meantime, I have found a solution to the problem of VISTA going to sleep again after waking up from hibernation. There is a Registry entry that is set to 120 (seconds) for this case and one can change that. Mine is now set to 900 (15 minutes) which is enough for VV to end the sync job.

However: I see in the log that the two jobs I scheduled in the night (at 4:00 and 4:01) executed as follows.

The PC woke up end executed job #2 at 4:01 (this one had the option /wait) but did not execute job #1 at 4:00 (no /wait option).

JOb #1 did not touch the VV log file. The Windows scheduler log shows no trace of #1 executing at all. #2 is OK, as far as I can see. VVscheduler shows both jobs as active and planned. Execution status for #1 is "never".

How can this be?

How can I run these 2 jobs with just *one* wake-up in the night? The two profile sync the same tree, but a complete subtree is excluded from #1 (with exclude sub-folder option) and is synced with job #2 (that does only this), with archiving turned on (only that subtree needs to use archiving).

Thanks, Peter

PS: I really think that archiving is important and that this feature is your competitive edge. But I think that archiving on/off should not be a profile attribute, rather it should be a subtree (file, filegroup, or similar) attribute (in other words an attribute of an entry of a profile, not of the profile itself). That would make life much easiser.

[Guest]

Since there is no response, I did try to fix the problem myself (took quite a bit of time, but now I know that responses are not always quick).

Anyway, for those interested: I seem to have discovered a bug: the job that did not execute did *not* have quotation marks around the command line in the windows task manager list (and as it had spaces in the path name, it was a problem).

This entry was generated by VVscheduler. The first job did not have the quotes, but the second did, that's why it executed.

Under VISTA, one can add several actions to one task. I combined the two VV entries into one (this is how I discovered the missing quotes) and added an action to put the PC back to hibernation.

This could be a workable way, even though it requires manual editing. But I think it is much better to run a combined task, instead of two.