Re: Scheduling Backup of TB! -- Issue Resolved

2006-08-20 Thread MFPA
Hi On Thursday 17 August 2006 at 3:00:57 PM, in mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Perry Nelson wrote: (I wrote this reply on August 15th, but the message bounced with a permanent failure notice for TBUDL. So, sorry for the delayed response.) I got permanent failure notices for TBUDL for a couple

Re: Scheduling Backup of TB! -- Issue Resolved

2006-08-17 Thread Perry Nelson
Hi Alexander, Tuesday, August 15, 2006, 7:03:36 AM, you wrote: Is Scheduler known to have problems with executing reliably? ASK Sorry, no. I have no idea. I'm not using the scheduler. No problem. (I wrote this reply on August 15th, but the message bounced with a permanent failure

Re: Scheduling Backup of TB! -- Issue Resolved

2006-08-17 Thread Alexander S. Kunz
Hello Perry Nelson everyone else, on 17-Aug-2006 at 16:00 you (Perry Nelson) wrote: Sorry to have caused undue alarm over the fact that it didn't work immediately, but I appreciate everyone's attempt to help. I don't know why it needed a three day running start to work, but work it now does.

Re: Scheduling Backup of TB!

2006-08-15 Thread Alexander S. Kunz
Hello Perry Nelson everyone else, on 14-Aug-2006 at 00:14 you (Perry Nelson) wrote: However, I would still like to understand why Scheduler in TB! isn't triggering the backup I have set up. I'd like to be able to rely on Scheduler to run tasks, but if it won't execute a properly created

Re: Scheduling Backup of TB!

2006-08-14 Thread Cory
On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 18:44:37 -0400, Chris W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. Duh, those sizes are long beyond

Re: Scheduling Backup of TB!

2006-08-14 Thread Cory
On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 18:14:19 -0400, Perry Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I would still like to understand why Scheduler in TB! isn't triggering the backup I have set up. Does it trigger other tasks? Try some very simple, partial tasks of what you planned originally. You may be able to

Re: Scheduling Backup of TB!

2006-08-14 Thread Perry Nelson
Hi Cory, Monday, August 14, 2006, 9:39:09 AM, you wrote: C Does it trigger other tasks? That's actually a very helpful question. Thanks. C Try some very simple, partial tasks of what you planned originally. I set up a simple test event and set it to notify me. It did NOT occur as

Re: Scheduling Backup of TB!

2006-08-14 Thread Richard H. Stoddard
Perry, Sunday, August 13, 2006, 5:04:01 PM, you wrote: PN Can you tell me what to change to cause this event to trigger PN automatically every night as it should? I'll reiterate that if I PN manually cause this scheduled event to execute immediately, it does PN everything just exactly as

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