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willyb21
04-11-2003, 02:25 PM
We run a simple TCP Network with about 50 machines. We have 6 main servers all running Windows 2000 server or linux redhat for the mail server. My problem is that I use one of the win2k machines as the backup server. I use windows scheduler to run a script through TurboZip to copy and zip up all of our data drives every night. This system has been working fine without a hitch for about a year and a half. When I came in Monday 04-07 the first morning after Daylight savings time began. None of the scripts had ran, scheduler only said script could not run. I then recreated each and every script and started them and saw that they were running. I came in the next day and although each script ran TurboZip gave me a message "nothing to zip" and so I got no backups again. I created everything again on a different machine running Windows 2000 Pro and got exactly the same "nothing to zip". The only thing I can see is that when I open "My Computer" all my mapped drives have a red "x" through them like there was not a active connection. How can I make sure the server doesn't lose it's connection after I go home at night. I make sure each drive is connected before I leave but in the morning they aren't. Sorry for the Windy post but I want to be accurate. Thanks to anyone.

omendata
04-12-2003, 06:27 PM
add the net use command to your script with the required parameters.

ie

net use p: \\server\c /persistent:yes

it would be better to try and find out why the drives are disconnecting - with the persistent parameter they should reconnect automatically.

willyb21
04-14-2003, 11:42 AM
omendata, Thanks for your response sorry it took so long to get back to you but I just put work aside for once this weekend. I'm not sure if your suggestion will work using the widows scheduler but I will give it a shot. I managed to get the backups to run this weekend by opening each networked drive and leaving them open on the taskbar. I did have 2 or 3 messages for each drive saying my machine had lost connection to the network drive and could not reconnect. That must have happened after my backups ran so at least it worked. Thanks Again
Will