Scheduled Backup does not run (Post #3)

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Kevin

I know I cross posted to the General forum, but no one
seems to have any clue on this problem. If you can help,
please let me know. Thanks! - Kevin

I have a WinxP workstation that is scheduled to run
NTBACKUP at 12:00 every morning and Norton AntiVirus 2002
at 2:00 every morning. The user is the Administrator, with
rights to all files. Norton AntiVirus completely scans the
workstation hard drive every morning with no problems, but
if I look at the reports for NTBACKUP, it shows the last
run as the manual run I did to test the backup days ago. I
have deleted the backup job and rescheduled it twice, both
times with the same problem. What's even more strange is
that everything looks fine in Windows Scheduler and inside
NTBACKUP. I also run the exact same backup schedule on one
other workstation running Windows 2000, and it works
perfectly. I've used the Microsoft
Support 'knowledgebase', but I can't seem to find any
reasons that NTBACKUP would not run using WinXP scheduler
under the Administrator user.

Any ideas? I'm almost ready to format and start over...

Kevin

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Kevin said:
I know I cross posted to the General forum, but no one
seems to have any clue on this problem. If you can help,
please let me know. Thanks! - Kevin

I have a WinxP workstation that is scheduled to run
NTBACKUP at 12:00 every morning and Norton AntiVirus 2002
at 2:00 every morning. The user is the Administrator, with
rights to all files. Norton AntiVirus completely scans the
workstation hard drive every morning with no problems, but
if I look at the reports for NTBACKUP, it shows the last
run as the manual run I did to test the backup days ago. I
have deleted the backup job and rescheduled it twice, both
times with the same problem. What's even more strange is
that everything looks fine in Windows Scheduler and inside
NTBACKUP. I also run the exact same backup schedule on one
other workstation running Windows 2000, and it works
perfectly. I've used the Microsoft
Support 'knowledgebase', but I can't seem to find any
reasons that NTBACKUP would not run using WinXP scheduler
under the Administrator user.

Any ideas? I'm almost ready to format and start over...

Kevin

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Kevin,

Sounds like you are doing everything right. I can't think of anything.
Sorry.

It does occur to me that I don't know what 12:00 in the morning is. Is
it noon or midnight?

My suggestion would be to schedule at at 12:01 in the odd chance that it
might make a different. I don't. I sometimes try thing like this when
stumped.

Also, instead of looking at the logs of what it did, check the actual
backup media. Maybe the backup happened, but just not logging right.
 
I know I cross posted to the General forum, but no one
seems to have any clue on this problem. If you can help,
please let me know. Thanks! - Kevin

I have a WinxP workstation that is scheduled to run
NTBACKUP at 12:00 every morning and Norton AntiVirus 2002
at 2:00 every morning. The user is the Administrator, with
rights to all files. Norton AntiVirus completely scans the
workstation hard drive every morning with no problems, but
if I look at the reports for NTBACKUP, it shows the last
run as the manual run I did to test the backup days ago. I
have deleted the backup job and rescheduled it twice, both
times with the same problem. What's even more strange is
that everything looks fine in Windows Scheduler and inside
NTBACKUP. I also run the exact same backup schedule on one
other workstation running Windows 2000, and it works
perfectly. I've used the Microsoft
Support 'knowledgebase', but I can't seem to find any
reasons that NTBACKUP would not run using WinXP scheduler
under the Administrator user.

Any ideas? I'm almost ready to format and start over...

Kevin

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The administrator account is passworded? A prerequisite of having
scheduled tasks run at all and often overlooked as it is not something
that is clearly pointed out in Help and Support.

Help and Support also mentions that the task scheduler service must be
running before and while you create the scheduled backup task. So check
the status of that service using Start> Run> services.msc beforehand.

Sharon F
MS MVP [Shell/User]
 
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