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2. Do not show messages and dialogs while processing (silent mode)

The preset is disabled.

Corporate administrators need an option to continue back up on all errors, despite what

that errors may be, without waiting for human decision, because this needs to be

automated. Details of operation, including errors, if any, could be found in the operation

log.

With the silent mode enabled, the program will automatically handle situations requiring

user intervention such as running off disk space (except for handling bad sectors, which is

defined as a separate option.) No one prompt will come up, including prompts for

removable media or overwriting data on a tape. If operation cannot continue without user

action, it will fail.

Therefore, enable this feature if you do not want unattended backup operations hang on

errors, but come to an end in any case.

5.3.11 Additional settings

1. Validate backup archive upon operation completion

The preset is disabled.

When enabled, the program will check integrity of the just created or supplemented

archive immediately after backup.

To check archive data integrity you must have all incremental and differential backups

belonging to the archive and the initial full backup. If any of successive backups is

missing, validation is not possible.

2. Overwrite data on a tape without user confirmation

The preset is enabled.

A full backup, when created on a tape drive, overwrites all data stored on the tape (see

3.9 Backing up to tape drive

for more information). In this situation, Acronis True Image

Echo Server will warn that you are about to lose data on the tape. To disable this

warning, check the middle box.

3. Ask for first media while creating backup archives on removable media

The preset is enabled.

You can choose whether to display the Insert First Media prompt when backing up to

removable media. With the default setting, backing up to removable media may be not

possible if the user is away, because the program will wait for someone to press OK in

the prompt box. Therefore, you should disable the prompt when scheduling a backup to

removable media. Then, if the removable media is available (for example, CD-R/RW

inserted) the task can run unattended.