Windows XP MCP Question???

[Sheldon]

I have tried three posts but no luck so far...I know the
Backup Utility is capable of doing what I want it to do
as other programs utilize the same type of scheduling
function and it works....Please advise!

I am trying to use the schedule function of Windows XP to
have the system due an automated weekly backup. I have
been using this utility for the past 4 months
successfully
by manually starting it. I have tried to get the utility
to run on a schedule automatically but what seems to be
happening is if the computer happens to be on at the
exact
time the backup is scheduled, then it works. If the
computer is off, I expected that the next time I log in
the backup would be performed as the scheduled time would
have already passed. This does not seem to be the case.
If the computer was off at the time of the scheduled
backup, the backup utility just seems to ignore that
backup attempt altogether! Can someone please let me
know
how to due a weekly backup(normal of differential) by
scheduling, so that if the machine happened to be turned
off, the backup would still take place next time the
machine is turned on. I have tried picking the backup at
login, or backup at startup option, but that only works
if
you want it to run everytime you startup the machine; not
if you wanted to run the utility once per week???

 

[David Candy]

No. Unless you want to write scripts and program it. System Agent in 95 Plus! did what you want but featute was removed when IE4 was released.

 

[Sheldon]

Thank you for your reply. What would you recommend then
for something to do a full backup lets say...once a
month, followed by regularly scheduled differential
backups for Windows XP.

-----Original Message-----
No. Unless you want to write scripts and program it.

System Agent in 95 Plus! did what you want but featute
was removed when IE4 was released.

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[David Candy]

I use NTBackup and XCopy. But it's scheduling that is your problem and apart from SA from 95 I don't know of any scheduler that does what you want.

Typically you would write a batch file of some sort

I'm not going to do your exam for you.

Write a batch file

Use echo. |date>datetemp.txt
Use For /f to parse the date in and give it to find to compare with the previous run time
If find matches then don't do your backup (cos already done today) and exit
Do your backup
use echo. |date>date.txt which will be compared with find next time

Schedule it at your time and at startup

Find returns error levels last documented in Dos 6.22 help file
0 The search was completed successfully and at least one match was found.

1 The search was completed successfully, but no matches were found.

2 The search was not completed successfully. In this case, an error
occurred during the search, and FIND cannot report whether any matches
were found.