Re: Ntbackup hangs

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From: Pegasus \(MVP\) (I.can_at_fly.com)
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:47:40 +1100

When you schedule a job to run under the "administrator" account,
and if you have a physical session on that machine ***before***
the job starts, then you can watch it as it executes (provided that
it runs under the "administrator" account). In other words,
you can see the ntbackup GUI come up, you can see the folder
selections etc. etc. If the job demands some user intervention then
you can see this also. Having said this I have to admit that on
some machine I have been unable to watch scheduled jobs, for
reasons unknown.

Have you examined the various logs generated by the job?
- The Event Log
- The Task Scheduler Log
- The NTBackup Log

What do they report?

"V&B" <VB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5863FBAE-274E-41A3-AEB1-6D998A6503C1@microsoft.com...
> The backupjob runs as administrator so If I open the console I should be
able
> to interact right? There are no messages, the process ntbackup.exe is
running
> (for ever if you let it). When I kill it and restart the job manually it
> works.

> I guess when the job waits for interaction it would always do this right?
> The job sometimes hangs....
>
> Any more ideas?
>
> "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:
>
> >
> > "V&B" <V&B@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:1AE25B86-FC9E-43D2-86C9-D979A63FC455@microsoft.com...
> > > ntbackup hangs randomly when scheduled on our w2k3 standard server.
The
> > > problem seems to have something to do with the system state backup.
When I
> > > remove the systemstate from the .bks script file the backup seems to
be
> > > running ok. When I put SystemState back in the bks file the backup
hangs
> > > randomly. Does anyone have a solution to this problem (except for
leaving
> > > system state out of the bks of course....) ?
> >
> > How do you know it hangs? Perhaps it's waiting for
> > some user intervention!
> >
> >
> >

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