Restarting or stopping the backup scheduler

Windows

  1. Click on the “Start Menu” and click “Control Panel”
  2. Select “View : Large Icons” on the top right corner of the screen, if it is not already selected. From all the icons on the screen, select “Administrative Tools”.
  3. From the tools list, select “Services”.
  4. From the service list, find the scheduler for your version of the software. For standard users, it will be “Online Backup Scheduler ( CyberSecure Online Backup Standard )” and for advanced users, it will be “Online Backup Scheduler ( CyberSecure Online Backup Advanced )”.
  5. To stop the scheduler, right click on the selected service and click “Stop” in the pop-up menu.
  6. To restart the scheduler, right click on the selected service and click “Restart” in the pop-up menu.
  7. And you are done.

Mac OS X

The following use the “sudo” command to execute with elevated privileges.

  1. Open “Terminal” (under Applications->Utilities)
  2. To find which user you are logged in under, type “whoami”.
  3. Then use the following commands to stop + start the scheduler service. The “sudo” command will prompt for your password – be sure to enter this correctly. It will not echo to the screen.
Action Command
Check if the scheduler is running echo -n 'scheduler is ';pgrep -qfi obcs "cybersecure && obcs";if [ $? -ne 0 ];then echo -n 'not ' ;fi;echo running
To stop the scheduler sudo pkill -fi obcs "cybersecure && obcs";sudo rm /Applications/CyberSecure\ Advanced/ipc/Scheduler/*
To start the scheduler sudo /Applications/CyberSecure\ Advanced/bin/Scheduler.sh &