I've got a Macrium 8.1 task that writes a full image once a month and then incremental images daily. It's kicked off by the Macrium scheduler.
The target is my D:\ drive, a big desktop USB HDD that stays attached to my docking station. That's all good, until I travel or otherwise unplug my laptop from the dock. If I happen to have a USB drive plugged in at the scheduled time, it will likely be assigned the D: drive letter and Macrium will dutifully set out to write an image on it. I don't want that to happen.
Is there a way to get Macrium to check for the volume ID rather than just a drive letter?
Or should I just kick off the Macrium job from Task Scheduler instead of using Macrium's scheduler? I can have Task Scheduler start a BAT file which checks to be sure the correct D: volume is mounted before starting the image. That's what I do with my FreeFileSync backups. I've been poking around and not having luck finding out how to tell Macrium to use Task Scheduler instead of its own internal tool. And how do you start a Macrium task from a BAT file?
The target is my D:\ drive, a big desktop USB HDD that stays attached to my docking station. That's all good, until I travel or otherwise unplug my laptop from the dock. If I happen to have a USB drive plugged in at the scheduled time, it will likely be assigned the D: drive letter and Macrium will dutifully set out to write an image on it. I don't want that to happen.
Is there a way to get Macrium to check for the volume ID rather than just a drive letter?
Or should I just kick off the Macrium job from Task Scheduler instead of using Macrium's scheduler? I can have Task Scheduler start a BAT file which checks to be sure the correct D: volume is mounted before starting the image. That's what I do with my FreeFileSync backups. I've been poking around and not having luck finding out how to tell Macrium to use Task Scheduler instead of its own internal tool. And how do you start a Macrium task from a BAT file?
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 11 23H2
- Computer type
- Laptop
- Manufacturer/Model
- Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon G10
- CPU
- i5-1240p
- Memory
- 16gb
- Graphics Card(s)
- Whatever comes in it
- Sound Card
- Whatever comes in it
- Monitor(s) Displays
- No external monitor. Yet.
- Screen Resolution
- 1920 x 1200
- Hard Drives
- Internal 512 GB SSD
Desktop 6 TB, 1 TB, 225 GB, all HDDs
Portable 4TB SSD, 2TB HDD
A whole army of USB flash memory sticks
- Mouse
- Logitech M317
- Internet Speed
- 500 mbps Fiber
- Browser
- Chrome
- Antivirus
- Windows Defender
- Other Info
- CalDigit TS4 dock for all my USB stuff, speakers, and connect to Android phone
HP MFP M277dw laser printer/scanner
