Hi,

Windows 2003 Server, File and Print and Database, member of a domain. I
setup ntbackup to do a nightly job but it continues to fail. I have a few
USB external drives that I swap and take off site. I replace these every few
days as it is cheaper and more convenient than tape. My problem is the
backup job when it is set to automatic it fails saying it cannot locate the
media. I have the removeable drive on another server that is running a local
backup and works fine. This server is connected to that with a drive
mapping. If i go into the backup job, and copy and paste the command line
parameters to a command prompt the backup works just fine.

Any ideas on why this is failing?

Thanks

Ted

"Ted" <Ted@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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I suspect that your drive letters are mixed up. Use the Task Scheduler
to run the following batch file, then examine c:\Drives.txt.

@echo off
cscript //nologo c:\DiskParms.vbs > c:\Drives.txt

The file c:\DiskParms.vbs must contain the following code:

Const Removable = 1
Const Fixed = 2
Const Network = 3
Const CDROM = 4
Const RAMDisk = 5
NewLine=Chr(10)

Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set drives = fso.Drives

S = ""
For Each drive In drives
S = S & "Drive " & drive.Path
S = S & " " & ShowDriveType(Drive)
If drive.IsReady Then S = S & ", ready" Else S = S & ", not ready"

if drive.IsReady Then
If drive.DriveType=Network Then
S = S & ", Label=" & drive.ShareName
Else
S = S & ", Label=" & drive.VolumeName
End If

S = S & ", FS=" & drive.FileSystem
S = S & ", Total=" & Int(drive.TotalSize/1000000)
S = S & ", Free=" & Int(drive.FreeSpace/1000000)
S = S & ", Available=" & Int(drive.AvailableSpace/1000000)
S = S & ", Serial=" & Hex(drive.SerialNumber)
End If

S = S & NewLine
Next
wscript.echo S
'==========================
Function ShowDriveType(Drive)

Select Case drive.DriveType
Case Removable
S = "Removable"
Case Fixed
S = "Fixed"
Case Network
S = "Network"
Case CDROM
S = "CD-ROM"
Case RAMDisk
S = "RAM Disk"
Case Else
S = "Unknown"
End Select

ShowDriveType = S
End Function

Try using a UNC path as mapped drives won't natively exist when no one is
logged on.


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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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"Ted" wrote:

"Dave Patrick" <DSPatrick@nospam.gmail.com> wrote in message
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Welcome back - we missed you!

Thanks. Went to Bahamas for the week.


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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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