Operation Manual

9. In the Disk Backup window, check that all settings are correct and click Back up now. If you want

your first backup to be run only at the time you specified in the Scheduler, click the down arrow

to the right of the Back up now button and select Later in the drop down list.

4.3.3 Notifications for backup operation

Sometimes a backup or recovery procedure can last an hour or longer. Acronis True Image 2016 can

notify you when it is finished via email. The program can also duplicate messages issued during the

operation or send you the full operation log after operation completion.

By default all notifications are disabled.

Free disk space threshold

You may want to be notified when the free space on the backup storage becomes less than the

specified threshold value. If after starting a backup Acronis True Image 2016 finds out that the free

space in the selected backup location is already less than the specified value, the program will not

begin the actual backup process and will immediately inform you by displaying an appropriate

message. The message offers you three choices - to ignore it and proceed with the backup, to browse

for another location for the backup or to cancel the backup.

If the free space becomes less than the specified value while the backup is being run, the program

will display the same message and you will have to make the same decisions.

To set the free disk space threshold:

 Select the Show notification message on insufficient free disk space check box

 In the Size box, type or select a threshold value and select a unit of measure

Acronis True Image 2016 can monitor free space on the following storage devices:

 Local hard drives

 USB cards and drives

 Network shares (SMB/NFS)

The message will not be displayed if the Do not show messages and dialogs while processing (silent mode)

check box is selected in the Error handling settings.

This option cannot be enabled for FTP servers and CD/DVD drives.

Email notification

You can specify an email account that will be used to send you email notifications.

To configure the email notifications:

1. Select the Send e-mail notifications about the operation state check box.

2. Configure email settings:

 Enter the email address in the To field. You can enter several email addresses in a

semicolon-delimited format.

 Enter the outgoing mail server (SMTP) in the Outgoing mail server (SMTP) field.

 Set the port of the outgoing mail server. By default the port is set to 25.

 If required, select the SMTP authentication check box, and then enter the user name and

password in the corresponding fields.

3. To check whether your settings are correct, click the Send test message button.