Schedule Backups

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Hi
I have some scheduled backups, that backup a w/s to a mapped netork drive
using NTBackup. They only seem to work if a particular user with admin rights
is logged in. If another user is logged in, or if no-one is logged in the
task fails to run in theschedule; or even if I right click the schedule task
and go run.
(However if I open the schedule task, copy the command into a file and save
as a .bat it will run whoever I am logged in as. Hence I think the script is
good.)
Any ideas
TIA
Lewej
 
Lewej said:
Hi
I have some scheduled backups, that backup a w/s to a mapped netork drive
using NTBackup. They only seem to work if a particular user with admin rights
is logged in. If another user is logged in, or if no-one is logged in the
task fails to run in theschedule; or even if I right click the schedule task
and go run.
(However if I open the schedule task, copy the command into a file and save
as a .bat it will run whoever I am logged in as. Hence I think the script is
good.)
Any ideas
TIA
Lewej
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You took the first step in resolving your problem, by copying
the command line into a batch file. You should now take the
second step, by actually ***scheduling*** the following
batch file to run:

@echo off
echo %date% %time% Start of task > c:\test.log
dir \\YourServer\MappedDrive 1>>c:\test.log 2>c:\test.err
echo %date% %time% 1>\\YourServer\MappedDrive 2>>c:\test.err
echo User=%UserName%, Path=%path% >> c:\test.log
%systemroot%\system32\ntbackup.exe /.. /.. 1>>c:\test.log 2>>c:\test.err
echo %date% %time% End of task >> c:\test.log

Examine the two log files and all will become clear! Perhaps
the cause is as simple as you not mapping the drive you're
trying to back up to.
 
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