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 notice for TBUDL. So, sorry for the delayed
response.)
ASK> I just thought its a rather complicated way to make a backup and
ASK> felt the urge to add a comment to this rather important issue.
I'm glad you did. I always find your comments insightful and helpful,
and in this case, they led me to rethink how to achieve my objective.
And now, are you ready for this?
This morning out of the blue the email was generated, signifying the
completion of the backup! Granted it was generated an hour late, at
02:45 a.m. rather than 01:45 a.m., but it was created and sent. That
was the first time that the email was auto-generated without my
running the task manually. Also the incremental backup was done.
I have no explanation for why it suddenly works. I plan to leave the
task in place for a couple of more nights just to see if it continues
to work. However, I'm not going to rely on that backup as my way to
restore TB! if necessary but on my regular backup procedure instead.
Update on 8/17/06:
The scheduled action has now worked for three days in a row, still an
hour late, but that is of no consequence to me. Here is the content of
the three messages I've received.
Backup successful at 2:45:00 AM on Tuesday, August 15, 2006.
Backup successful at 2:45:00 AM on Wednesday, August 16, 2006.
Backup successful at 2:45:00 AM on Thursday, August 17, 2006.
In the interim, I've setup my usual backup routine to backup both the
home folder and the mail folder, so I am covered. I'll do a periodic
backup of the whole installation using TB!'s internal backup tool,
just so I have that in case I need it.
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.
And now that it works, I'll probably delete that task in favor of the
alternate backup strategy mentioned above.
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Regards,
Perry
Using The Bat! v3.81.14 Beta on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2
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