
Important: To process jobs, you must finish the ongoing task through task scheduling and restart BackUp Maker from the desktop of the user under which the software was set up. It is therefore important to use the option of sending reports by e-mail to inform you whether the backup jobs created have been performed correctly. Note that the BackUp Maker tray icon is not displayed in this type of execution the program runs virtually as a service invisible in the background. In addition, the trigger "At startup" must be selected under "Trigger" instead of "At log on".Īfter these changes, the system should be restarted, alternatively, BackUp Maker can be stopped and the task that has just been changed can be started. Instead of "Run only when user is logged on" you must enable the "Run whether user is logged on or not" option. The program therefore operates as a Windows-controlled service that can perform backups independently of a user login.Īll that is needed to do this is to change the post-installation task "BackUp_Maker-USERNAME" in Windows Task Scheduler (which can be found via Windows Search for the keyword "Task Scheduler") as follows:

Answer: On all Windows systems since Windows Vista (or on server versions since Windows Server 2008), BackUp Maker can be started as a service via Windows Task Scheduler without requiring a user to be logged on to the system.
