Pause my backup schedule?

The backup schedule can be paused if you do not want any backups to take place for a period of time. The backups will not take place until you manually resume the schedule.

This is also done automatically when you are choosing a new drive, migrating drives, or you have just restored your Oops!Backup profile to a new PC.

1. How to Pause Your Backup Schedule:

To pause your backup schedule, simply open the Manager window, and right click on one of the folders in the "Backup Folders" panel at the bottom right:




On the context menu that pops up, select "Pause backups for this Folder".


2. All folders are paused at once, except for Special Folders (if you don't know what a Special Folder is, click here).
This image shows how a Special Folder can be paused independently of all the other selected folders. This user has three standard selected folders and one Special Folder called "Error Reports":

All folders paused except special folders:                       Special Folder paused independently:
                 



3. Resuming the backup schedule:

To resume the backup schedule, simply right click on the folders again and select "Resume Backups for this Folder".
All standard folders will be resumed at once. Special Folders however need to be resumed one at a time:

        

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