ntbackup scheduling not working

[slam]

I am running ntbackup on a laptop so that when it is in the office it is scheduled to backup to the network drive. It worked for a while but now I get nothing. its schedules currently for daily and 9 am. What would stop the scheduler from starting this task?

[r8500]

Delete the task, and recreate it.

[tantone]

What account is it set to run with? I've had better results using the admin account rather than simply an administrator.

[slam]

the schedule for backup was created as the login user name. The only user that I setup for this laptop.

[Midknyte]

what OS are you using? if you want to sync files, you should use offline files instead. ntbackup is more for tape backup rather than synchronization.

http://labmice.techtarget.com/windows2000/FileMgmt/offline_folders.htm

[slam]

winxp pro

edit:
On a novell 5 network

[Midknyte]

Originally posted by slam

On a novell 5 network

ack. You poor accursed soul. :(

I know restarting the removable storage service before each backup worked for tape drives, but probably not in your case.

You can try something like Beyond Compare:
http://www.scootersoftware.com/

[slam]

stupid:mad:
All I needed to do was go to control panel: scheduled tasks to find out that it failed because of a password. I didn't realize that I would get info like that in the scheduled tasks because that is not where I set up the schedule.

Thanks

seems to be working now:t