Pausing scheduled backups
Hold every scheduled backup for 1, 4 or 24 hours from the notification-area icon, skip one job's run tonight, or pause the backup that is running now.
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Sometimes tonight is the wrong night: a presentation to finish, a slow hotel connection, a drive you have lent out. GBM AI has three ways to hold a backup back, depending on how much you want to hold.
| You want to | Do this |
|---|---|
| Hold every scheduled backup for a few hours | Pause scheduled backups from the notification-area icon |
| Skip one job's run tonight | Turn that job off, and back on tomorrow |
| Hold the backup that is running now | Pause it |
Pause every scheduled backup#
- Right-click the GBM AI icon in the notification area, next to the clock.
- Point to Pause scheduled backups.
- Choose For 1 hour, For 4 hours or For 24 hours.
While the pause lasts:
- Home shows Scheduled backups are paused until 14:30, with Resume now.
- The icon's tooltip says Scheduled backups paused until 14:30.
- Backups you start yourself still run, and a backup that is already running carries on.
- The pause holds after a restart of the PC.
To end it early, click Resume now on Home, or right-click the icon and choose Resume scheduled backups.
Important
A pause delays; it does not skip. A backup that falls due during the pause runs once, as soon as the pause ends.
If the PC is off or asleep when the pause ends, the usual catch-up rule applies from the end of the pause. See Missed runs.
The pause is only in the notification-area icon. If you have hidden the icon, turn Settings ▸ General ▸ Show GBM AI in the notification area back on.
Skip one job's run tonight#
- Open Jobs.
- Turn off the job's On switch. Scheduled runs are skipped until you switch it back on.
- Tomorrow, turn it back on.
A run that fell due while the job was off does not run later. The job carries on from its next scheduled time. Nothing is deleted while a job is off.
Pause the backup that is running#
Pause on Home's live panel, on the run page, or Pause this backup in the icon's menu. The run stops where it is and keeps what it has done; Resume carries on from there. See Running, pausing and stopping a job.
To give up on tonight's run altogether, Stop it instead. A backup stopped while it is writing keeps nothing from that run; the next run starts from the last complete backup.