Re: NT Backup Fails to External HD - Insufficient Disk Space

Then its suggested that you might want to post in one of the regular server
groups...

But you don't specify how big your drive is?

Does it have space to hold more than one job?

Did you specify to append or overwrite?

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"BillP" <notachance@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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AS a follow-up, this is SERVER 2003, NOT SBS.

"BillP" <notachance@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have created five scheduled backup jobs (Monday - Friday) to an external
USB hard Drive. The first time each scheduled task is run, it completes
sucessfully, but the following week the job will fail with this error
message:
"Insufficient disk space. Verify that you have full access to the working
folder and there is disk space available."
If I manually delete the previous weeks nightly back up then the job will
once again complete successively. When I created each backup job, I
chose, "Overwrite existing backup". Additionally, there is PLENTY of free
space available on the external HD even after the five weekly backups.
It appears to me that NTbackup is seeing the previous weeks nightly
backup and then refusing to overwrite it. Any ideas?
Here is the command line for Friday that is being executed:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntbackup.exe backup "@C:\Documents and
Settings\Administrator.fabrics\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Windows NT\NTBackup\data\Friday.bks" /n "Friday.bkf
created 4/9/2007 at 12:58 PM" /d "Set created 4/9/2007 at 12:58 PM" /n
"Friday.bkf created 4/9/2007 at 12:58 PM" /v:no /r:no /rs:no /hc:off /m
normal /j "Friday" /l:s /f "F:\BackupWHSE\Friday\Friday.bkf"
TIA
BillP




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