Scheduling Backup of TB!

2006-08-13 Thread Perry Nelson
Hi TBUDL, Because I recently had to restore TB! from a 2 month old backup, I decided to use the Scheduler to have TB! do a nightly incremental backup. I set it up to run at 01:45 a.m. each night and to send an email immediately upon completion from one account to another using a

Re: Scheduling Backup of TB!

2006-08-13 Thread Richard Wakeford
Hello Perry, On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 you wrote in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PN However, my problem is that the event isn't triggered automatically. I do a backup each night too. The only difference is that I don't send myself a message afterwards but, apart from that, my settings are the same as yours

Re: Scheduling Backup of TB!

2006-08-13 Thread Perry Nelson
Hi Richard, Sunday, August 13, 2006, 8:28:16 AM, you wrote: RW I do a backup each night too. The only difference is that I don't RW send myself a message afterwards but, apart from that, my settings RW are the same as yours and my backup runs as it should so I can't RW help - sorry :-( Thanks

Re: Scheduling Backup of TB!

2006-08-13 Thread jim
On Sunday, August 13, 2006, at 7:04:01 AM, Perry Nelson wrote: Thanks for any suggestions you may have. What are the properties of your Backup event on the Actions tab (highlight the event and click Edit to view them)? I'm running an incremental backup every night at 11:59 p.m. local time and

Re: Scheduling Backup of TB!

2006-08-13 Thread Perry Nelson
Hi Jim, Sunday, August 13, 2006, 11:41:25 AM, you wrote: jjc What are the properties of your Backup event on the Actions tab jjc (highlight the event and click Edit to view them)? Backup Tab: What to backup: Account Properties Folders with Messages Address Books (all

Re[2]: Scheduling Backup of TB!

2006-08-13 Thread jim
On Sunday, August 13, 2006, at 10:56:03 AM, Perry Nelson wrote: Backup Method Create an Update to existing archive (Path specified) Did you create a full backup using the specified path? So far as I can tell, a full backup is necessary for the add timestamp feature to work. For

Re: Scheduling Backup of TB!

2006-08-13 Thread Alexander S. Kunz
Hello Perry Nelson everyone else, on 13-Aug-2006 at 14:04 you (Perry Nelson) wrote: Because I recently had to restore TB! from a 2 month old backup, I decided to use the Scheduler to have TB! do a nightly incremental backup. You're using Windows XP. Your computer is running overnight to run

Re: Scheduling Backup of TB!

2006-08-13 Thread Perry Nelson
Hi Alexander, Sunday, August 13, 2006, 1:54:11 PM, you wrote: ASK Your computer is running overnight to run the backup event you ASK created within TB. I wonder, why don't you use NTbackup?!? Thanks for sharing your thoughts about this issue. The plan you suggest may well be a better

Re: Scheduling Backup of TB!

2006-08-13 Thread Chris W .
Perry Nelson @ 2006-8-13 8:04:01 AM Scheduling Backup of TB! mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] However, my problem is that the event isn't triggered automatically. Silly question: do you leave The Bat! running over night? -- Chris Using The Bat! v3.80.06 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2.

Re: Scheduling Backup of TB!

2006-08-13 Thread Chris W .
[EMAIL PROTECTED] @ 2006-8-13 11:41:25 AM Scheduling Backup of TB! mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] my full backup file is nearly 80 MB, and the incremental files grow by about a megabyte a day... Only 80 megs? You, sir, are only a novice. This amateur's backups are a paltry 300 megs. -- Chris Using

Re: Scheduling Backup of TB!

2006-08-13 Thread Perry Nelson
Hi Chris, Sunday, August 13, 2006, 6:32:39 PM, you wrote: CW Silly question: do you leave The Bat! running over night? Chuckle. Yes, I did, but thanks for asking. ;-) -- Regards, Perry Using The Bat! v3.81.14 Beta on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2