Running Backup

I am about to pose a stupid question :-o but I would like to know the answer. I have back up set on my PC scheduled to run every Sunday at 19:00 hours. It's a day and time when I will almost certainly on my PC.

If I'm not on the PC at that time will it wait until next Sunday at 19:00 hours or will it run the first time it's switched on after the time it was scheduled to run?

 

Best to test this yourself. Sometime before the next backup create a dummy file and close it. Be on your PC next Sunday evening and check the backup about 8pm for the presence of your dummy file.

 

Thanks for answering my question, I appreciate it. I think I badly worded my question as the answer was unexpected.

If the PC is on a 19:00 hours on Sundays backup runs. If it's not on then backup can't run. I'm not concerned about it not working.

I should be clearer in what I write. This afternoon my PC was switched on by me. Backup started to run. It wasn't on last night at 19:00. Obviously, I answered my own question. If the PC was scheduled to run at a set time and wasn't on it couldn't run. Clearly, the next time the PC is switched on it's running on my PC. I suppose my question ought to have been is this the norm, should backup run at the next opportunity it has if it wasn't switched on at the scheduled time?

I hope this makes more sense this time.

[Note to self: slow down and take more time to write better questions:-o]

 

No, it was me - I didn't study the question properly. There are so many backup systems available I wouldn't care to generalise but yes, in my experience a scheduled backup will usually run at the first opportunity if it is unable to run as scheduled.

 

The backup I use is Windows inbuilt one. It might not be the best but I wouldn't know how to select one. I probably don't even do the best backup. I backup to a drive on the PC. If I were to lose it in whatever way I'd lose the backup too.

 

You're correct about losing the backup too if you're backing up to another partition (or the same one as your OS and apps are installed to) on your internal hard drive and the drive fails.

I use an external USB connected hard drive (500 GB) and AOMEI Backupper. It lacks scheduling but, has the best compression algorithm of the ones I've tried. I back up manually every patch Tuesday or more often if I've done several app updates (I've got the time to back up 3 versions of Windows).

I believe Macrium Reflect and/or Ease US have the ability to schedule backups.

 

@mdonah - I suspect the OP is talking about backing up his files, not the OS.

@mark59 - as mdonah suggests, get a plug-in portable drive to backup to and keep your docs and photos safe. Operating systems and software can always be replaced but photos and so on, no chance. If you want any help with backup just ask.

 

I shall almost certainly take you up on that offer, thanks!

I could do with having a USB port fitted to my brain and then having a whole host of computing knowledge dowloaded in to my grey matter.

 

My files aren't even kept on any of my system drives. They, too, are on an external drive. I had a system drive fail on me once. At that point, I decided to keep all important files on a removable drive so when I was restoring from an image, I had the most recent versions of my files already. Now, if for some reason, the removable drive should fail, well...

 

First thing I do with any new computer is partition the main drive and move all my personal profile folders to the new partition. That way I can image the OS to an external without including any of my own stuff, and restore an image without overwriting my own stuff. I use WinRAR to incrementally backup my data partition to NAS daily and, when I think about it, I plug in a portable drive and backup my data to that too. Belt, braces and suspenders :-D