I have scheduled an automatic backup for 5 am every day. In Task Scheduler under "Conditions," I checked "Wake the computer to run this task." This does not work when my computer is in Sleep mode. What else must I do to make this work?

Hi, By default, if it's time for your regularly scheduled backup and your computer is off, sleeping, or hibernating, Windows Backup skips the backup and waits for your next scheduled backup. However, if you want to automatically wake the computer to perform backup, you can use the task scheduler to schedule a task to wake the computer before the scheduled backup time. Best RegardsDale

To clarify, using Task Scheduler, you can modify the Backup task to wake the computer to run the backup. In Windows 7 2011.