Debbie
December 11th 03, 11:01 PM
I am running XP Home.
I've installed the XP backup utility
It works great for manual backups (vastly surperior to the backup utility
supplied with Win 98!).
However I can't seem to schedule the backup to run automatically. Here are
the steps I've followed:
I click the Schedule Jobs tab
I click Add Job
I click Next in the wizard
I choose Backup selected files, drives or network data and click Next
I choose my folders and click Next again
The "select the backup type" option is greyed out (perhaps this is only in
xp pro?)
I choose to backup my stuff to a network drive and enter the path
I type a name for the backup
I click Next
I choose the type of backup to be: Incremental and click Next (again)
Then I choose "verify data after backup" . I do not choose "disable volume
shadow copy"
Click Next
I choose "append this data to the existing backups" and click Next
I choose to run the backup "Later"
I give it a job name and the choose Set Schedule....
In the Schedule Job box I tell it to schedule it Once and choose a time
which is 5 mins from now (simply because I'm testing this out and trying to
get it to work - ultimately i'll have it run every night).
Click OK and return to the Backup Wizard and click Next
***** HERE'S THE PROBLEM!!! ****
I get a box that says "Set Account Information"
In the Run as: box it says" CURLEY\db
Note: CURLEY is the name of my computer, "db" is the name of the only user
on this computer and "db" is the adminstrator
The two boxes: Password and Confirm password are BLANK.
No matter what I enter in these 2 boxes, the job never runs. I have left
them blank, I have entered a random password, it doesn't seem to matter.
I do NOT have a password for user "db" but perhaps the scheduler wants me to
have one?????
QUESTION: Why won't my scheduled backup run??????????????
My eternal gratitude to anyone who has an answer, I have been surfing the
web looking for the answer to this and can find absolutely nothing about
scheduling backups in XP. The microsoft knowledgebase is hopeless. :(
I've installed the XP backup utility
It works great for manual backups (vastly surperior to the backup utility
supplied with Win 98!).
However I can't seem to schedule the backup to run automatically. Here are
the steps I've followed:
I click the Schedule Jobs tab
I click Add Job
I click Next in the wizard
I choose Backup selected files, drives or network data and click Next
I choose my folders and click Next again
The "select the backup type" option is greyed out (perhaps this is only in
xp pro?)
I choose to backup my stuff to a network drive and enter the path
I type a name for the backup
I click Next
I choose the type of backup to be: Incremental and click Next (again)
Then I choose "verify data after backup" . I do not choose "disable volume
shadow copy"
Click Next
I choose "append this data to the existing backups" and click Next
I choose to run the backup "Later"
I give it a job name and the choose Set Schedule....
In the Schedule Job box I tell it to schedule it Once and choose a time
which is 5 mins from now (simply because I'm testing this out and trying to
get it to work - ultimately i'll have it run every night).
Click OK and return to the Backup Wizard and click Next
***** HERE'S THE PROBLEM!!! ****
I get a box that says "Set Account Information"
In the Run as: box it says" CURLEY\db
Note: CURLEY is the name of my computer, "db" is the name of the only user
on this computer and "db" is the adminstrator
The two boxes: Password and Confirm password are BLANK.
No matter what I enter in these 2 boxes, the job never runs. I have left
them blank, I have entered a random password, it doesn't seem to matter.
I do NOT have a password for user "db" but perhaps the scheduler wants me to
have one?????
QUESTION: Why won't my scheduled backup run??????????????
My eternal gratitude to anyone who has an answer, I have been surfing the
web looking for the answer to this and can find absolutely nothing about
scheduling backups in XP. The microsoft knowledgebase is hopeless. :(