Section 2 - Best practices and recommendations

This section describes the best practices for your backup client application.

2.12 Power options - plan settings consideration

Windows's power options are configured to put a computer to low power mode (sleep or hibernate mode) automatically after a user specified time of inactivity (no usage of mouse or keyboard).





1. If a computer is in low power mode when a scheduled backup should execute, OBM will not start up the computer to execute the backup.
   When the computer moves out of the low power state, OBM will not execute the missed backup job. This can lead to missed backup.


2. If a backup job is running when the computer enters low power state, OBM cannot prevent the computer from going into hibernation.




To prevent the above events, consider disabling or changing the client machine's power options to allow scheduled backup to be triggered, and to allow the backup job to be completed.





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