Waking computer for scheduled tasks when installed as a service

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#1

Hi,

I have Duplicacy WebUI version installed as a service on Windows 10. From the forum, it sounds like Duplicacy should automatically wake my computer from sleep when a scheduled task is set to run. However, it does not wake from sleep for me.

When I manually woke my computer, it looks like it immediately tried to run the scheduled task, but failed because my network interface had not fully woken yet.

I looked for the registry settings, to check if NoWakeUp was accidentally set for some reason, and to set the WakeUpDelay to a larger number, but found that neither HKLM/Software/Duplicacy nor HKCU/Software/Duplicacy even existed. I added HKLM/Software/Duplicacy, and set NoWakeUp as a string set to 0, and WakeUpDelay set to 60, but it did not fix the problem.

Any suggestions on how to resolve this?

#2

NoWakeUp was for the old native GUI. The web GUI doesn’t wake up automatically when a schedule is about to run. You’ll need to use other ways, like Windows Task Scheduler, to make sure that the computer is awake at the scheduled time.

#3

Another way around this that doesn’t require doing anything outside of Duplicacy is to run a trivial backup to the local disk before anything that needs the network.