Re: ntbackup issue

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"Mike-in-Houston" <MikeinHouston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I adopted a windows server 2003 SP1 client that wants to phase out there
tape
drive backup method that currently uses Symantec backup exec 10d. I'm
reading up on that program now to see if it allows you to substitute
rotating
external USB drives for the tape drive it currently has configured.

Meanwhile, I tried to schedule ntbackup to perform a backup nightly to an
attached USB drive and it doesn't start up at the scheduled time. Manual
starts work fine.

Is it a logon permission issue? Did the Backup Exec program turn off this
feature? Will updating to the current SP level fix it?

One last thing. The server doesn't have a keyboard of monitor, so I
logged
on thru remote desktop as administrator to configure the ntbackup
schedule.
Does it have to be configured by a local user?

It is common to believe that ntbackup.exe does not start but in most cases
it does start but fails to finish for some reason. What does the backup log
report? What does it say in the Task Scheduler log file?


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