From: Ian Robert on 19 Apr 2007 06:34 Hi, I am having a similar problem, the clue to your problem is you say the "administrator console is always logged on"... which causes NTBackup to fail. I found KB Article KB927073 which talks about blank log files and the fact that the console is logged in. Is there anyway around the issue? That is my question. If I create a Schedule account does this avoid the problem? I am Going to give it a go to see. But does anyone at MS know of a way of fixing the problem as described in KB927073 ? Thanks Ian "Ben Bazian" wrote: > I have scheduled a backup on a Windows 2003 domain controller. It is > scheduled to run at 11;00pm. When I look at the report in NT backup it > appears to launch the backup but the report is blank. I am not seeing > anything in the event viewer. If I go to the task and tell it to run the > scheduled task now the backup works just fine. > > The server is logged in as administrator when the scheduled task launches. > > Here is the scheduled tasks parameters. > > C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntbackup.exe backup "@C:\Documents and > Settings\Administrator.BUSINESS\Local Settings\Application > Data\Microsoft\Windows NT\NTBackup\data\Daily Diff.bks" /n "Diff Backup" > /v:no /r:no /rs:no /hc:on /m differential /j "Daily Diff" /l:f /M > Differential /p "4mm DDS" /um > > > >
From: sal on 24 Apr 2007 11:29 I just solved this problem on my server but here is the catch. I was trying to back up mapped drives. When you are not logged in the mapped drives are not available. I put net use in the batch file and it worked. I hope this helps someone figure out their problem. How I figured this out was I ran the backup from the remote machine and tried to backup to the removeable drive on the server which was shared out. This time instead of a blank backup log I got one that read "media not available". Then it dawned on me that the mapping to the removeable drive was not available when not logged in. I placed net use in the batch file on the server and now the mapped drives are backing up.
From: Ian Robert on 24 Apr 2007 17:32 Hi Sal, Thanks for that. My backup only consists of the local C: drive and the server is just a file and print server, no exchange or anything like that. Just plain vanilla backup...which "should" work ;-) Ian. "sal" wrote: > I just solved this problem on my server but here is the catch. I was > trying to back up mapped drives. When you are not logged in the mapped > drives are not available. I put net use in the batch file and it > worked. I hope this helps someone figure out their problem. How I > figured this out was I ran the backup from the remote machine and > tried to backup to the removeable drive on the server which was shared > out. This time instead of a blank backup log I got one that read > "media not available". Then it dawned on me that the mapping to the > removeable drive was not available when not logged in. I placed net > use in the batch file on the server and now the mapped drives are > backing up. > >
From: Pegasus (MVP) on 24 Apr 2007 17:32 "sal" <smsii(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1177428585.603581.306830(a)s33g2000prh.googlegroups.com... > I just solved this problem on my server but here is the catch. I was > trying to back up mapped drives. When you are not logged in the mapped > drives are not available. I put net use in the batch file and it > worked. I hope this helps someone figure out their problem. How I > figured this out was I ran the backup from the remote machine and > tried to backup to the removeable drive on the server which was shared > out. This time instead of a blank backup log I got one that read > "media not available". Then it dawned on me that the mapping to the > removeable drive was not available when not logged in. I placed net > use in the batch file on the server and now the mapped drives are > backing up. > You must be careful when mapping shares in a scheduled jobs. UNC coding is fine but if you map drive letters to shares then you are likely to run into trouble.
From: Hank Arnold on 27 Apr 2007 04:46 Don't use mapped drives. Use the UNC name for the drive/resource..... Regards, Hank Arnold sal wrote: > I just solved this problem on my server but here is the catch. I was > trying to back up mapped drives. When you are not logged in the mapped > drives are not available. I put net use in the batch file and it > worked. I hope this helps someone figure out their problem. How I > figured this out was I ran the backup from the remote machine and > tried to backup to the removeable drive on the server which was shared > out. This time instead of a blank backup log I got one that read > "media not available". Then it dawned on me that the mapping to the > removeable drive was not available when not logged in. I placed net > use in the batch file on the server and now the mapped drives are > backing up. >
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