How to disable scheduled backups?

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I'd like to disable scheduled backups because my Norton antivirus software cannot be copied and I must be present for the first 20 minutes of backup to choose "skip" for each of about 20 Norton files.  This occurs even though I tried to exclude files having *Norton* in their names, and even when I turn off Norton software before backup.  I'm running ThinkCentre M55, 8811-CTO, with Windows XP Pro.  I've removed backup from the XP "Scheduled Tasks" manager, and in "Config AwayManager tasks", Backup using R&R is not checked.  In R&R, "Set Schedule, Schedule your Backups" is not checked.  Despite these settings, once a day every day I continue to get the "backup cannot copy the ....(Norton)...file" window.  I tried allowing one scheduled backup to run to completion, hoping that if I did this, R&R would no longer run auto backups.  But it didn't work.  How can I stop R&R from running auto backups?  I'd prefer to run manual backups at my convenience.
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Answer 1

If you can't disable scheduled backups (under Set Schedule etc.), check under Scheduled Tasks (XP) or the
equivalent for your OS and see if anything labelled R&R is set to run, if so disable it.
In R&R you can exclude entire directories and directory trees from being backed up,
this should be better than trying to filter on file names.
Advanced - Exclude Files.
What I did is to set up excluded directories, but thereafter I run R&R from a batch file in command line mode.
This is documented in a manual that can be downloaded from Lenovo.
Before I start it I stop internet access, and shut down anti-virus (Kaspersky in my case), and verify that all anti-virus processes
have stopped using Process Explorer (a free download from Microsoft).  I also manually stop Google Desktop,
Google notifier, in general everything that seems like it might interfere.
Since I started following this procedure I no longer have any issues.
You can also add a batch file command to shut down the computer after the backup,
which is desirable.
Here's most of my batch file:
echo Perform full backup
echo Delete old backup on USB drive
"c:\program files\lenovo\rescue and recovery\rrcmd" delete location=U silent
rem above deletes the old backup on the USB drive
echo Create base backup on USB drive
"c:\program files\lenovo\rescue and recovery\rrcmd" backup location=U name=base silent
rem above backs up to USB
echo Shutdown
computershutdown -s -f