Windows 10: Can Macrium Reflect "miss" a scheduled backup?

I am using one of the "canned" backup definitions: Full backup at 9 AM on the first Monday of every month Differential backup at 9 AM every Monday of every week Incremental backup at 9 AM every Monday...Sunday The last full backup should have been done on Monday April 4, but I don't see any backup for that date in my Macrium System Images folder. I probably didn't turn on my PC that day. My first question is this: If a scheduled backup cannot be performed on the scheduled date, is the backup skipped? Or is it simply deferred until the next opportunity arises? If it is skipped, then I suppose the only solution is to run the backup manually. My second question: if a full backup is skipped, how do you tell Macrium to run a full backup? I have been depending on automatic updates for so long that I forgot the basics. Looking at the interface, however, there doesn't seem to be a straightforward way to just run a full backup right now. Windows 10.0.19042 Macrium Reflect Home Edition (licensed) v7.3.5758

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Macrium Scheduled Backups Broken with Anniversary Update

I use Macrium Reflect V5 to automate my backups. Thank god I had done a manual backup before Creators update because CU bricked my PC and I had to restore from the image.

Anyway, I say manual backup because on March 10, Microsoft forced upon me the Anniversary Update which resulted in the scheduled tasks in Macrium Reflect being broken.

1) Why is Microsoft forcing these damaging updates on us?

2) How can I get my Macrium scheduled backups to run properly? I've uninstalled, reinstalled, recreated all my backup schedules and nothing works.

This is ridiculous. I'm half tempted to go find myself a copy of Enterprise LTSB. I won't make use of the bloatware MS sticks in new builds, so there's no sense in having them forced on me. STOP IT!

 

Issues with Macrium Reflect and SyncToy programs Windows 10.

Hi Ed,

Welcome to Microsoft Community.

We understand that you have issues with Macrium Reflect and SyncToy programs on Windows 10. We feel sorry for the inconvenience this has caused.

We will assist you to resolve the issue.

Before we proceed, I need more information to help you better.

1. What is the version of SyncToy installed on your computer?

2. What is the version of Macrium Reflect installed on your computer?

3. As per you query, you say "scheduler not working for macrium reflect", are you referring to Task scheduler?

4. If it is Task scheduler, Is Task scheduler working on all programs, other than Macrium Reflect ?

Please post your query on SyncToy forum link below:

Microsoft forums


Let's refer to these links below.

Schedule Task

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Hope the above information helps. Reply with necessary information and the result to help you further.

 

How Reliable is Macrium Reflect Backup Scheduling?

I've configured Reflect to automatically run full and differential backups to two drives as shown in the enclosed Reflect status report.



The report says the last " full system backup to usb hdd" was run on 14/11/16 and was successful. However when I look at the file backups there is no full backup file for 14/11/ 16 - see below.



There is no error report and there is ample space on the destination drive. The differential backup has worked as has the backups to the other drive "full ssd backup to drive X".

Has anyone else noticed missing backups from Reflect with no reported errors? I'll check more closely in future whether Reflect is scheduling backups correctly.