Scheduled Backups

[Guest]

I am at wits end. I have dome a favor for a friend at his home. I am a
Network guy by trade and cannot get this issue resolved.

Set up an external hard drive on a WXP home system. Added Backup from the
value folder and setup a schedule under the admin account.

It goes off when I am there at the scheduled time. but will fails every time
after that. No window pops up to show the backup going and no failure messges.

I of course go back in to see if the jobs are there and they are.

I go back rescheule wait and it works, but never after that.

Any suggestions out here at all.

Thanks
Frank Campbell

 

[Kerry Brown]

I am at wits end. I have dome a favor for a friend at his home. I am a
Network guy by trade and cannot get this issue resolved.

Set up an external hard drive on a WXP home system. Added Backup from the
value folder and setup a schedule under the admin account.

It goes off when I am there at the scheduled time. but will fails every
time
after that. No window pops up to show the backup going and no failure
messges.

I of course go back in to see if the jobs are there and they are.

I go back rescheule wait and it works, but never after that.

Any suggestions out here at all.

Does the admin account have a password? Scheduled tasks won't work if the
account used to run the task doesn't have a password unless the admin
happens to be logged in when the task starts.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;310715

Kerry

 

[Guest]

It does have a passowrd. I changed the password just to make sure it works.

If the password was the issue wouldn't fail on the first B/U?

It works fine then the schedule bombs. It requires a passowrd to set the
schedule, and it accepts it then

My friend lives an hour away and that makes this no fun.

Thanks
Frank

 

[GTS]

It would be helpful to try to narrow the failure point. After the failure,
I suggest checking whether the Task Scheduler service is shown running.
Also, have you checked Event Viewer logs for any possible relevant messages?
Also, is there any power management setting that might impact that external
drive?

 

[David Candy]

The password is checked when and each time the program is run.

 

[Kerry Brown]

I find scheduled backups very problematic unless run from a script. Schedule
the backup then go into the task properties and copy whatever is in the run
box to a script. Once copied you can modify to ignore RSM etc. Once you have
a script that works delete the scheduled backup and schedule the script to
run instead.

Kerry