[FX.php List] Re: Not a valid path - for scheduled backups

Rodney Schmidt rodney at fmpro2go.com
Wed Aug 8 20:53:41 MDT 2007 

This discussion about-back ups is particularly interesting following on the
excellent presentation given by Rick Colcock at DevCon.

Rick pulled two USB 1 GB flash memory sticks out of his pocket and proceeded
to demonstrate a server RAID backup config using them!

What a great idea! I'm trying to decide if I want to try it. Any opinions?

-- 
Rodney Schmidt

> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 14:05:02 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Troy Meyers <tcmeyers at troymeyers.com>
> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] Not a valid path - for scheduled backups
> To: "FX.php Discussion List" <fx.php_list at mail.iviking.org>
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> GGT,
> 
> I wish that were it. I just tried that, but no luck. Actually the Schedules
> part of the FileMaker Server Admin also indicates that, even though it keeps
> trying, the last successful backup was 5/27/2007 (other schedules successful
> in the week preceding that).
> 
> The Event.log also has reports of unsuccessful backup attempts.
> 
> Tom --
> I'm trying the change of ownership of the external drive... sure enough, one
> of the choices in the dropdown is literally "fmserver", so I changed the owner
> (it was "mini3user") but this hasn't produced the valid path indication. I'm
> going to stop and restart FMS when I can, to see if this is required to make
> the change work. I can't do that right now, I'd have employees coming running
> screaming the system is down!
> 
> -Troy
> 
> 
>> I thought I had that problem too until I pressed apple + i on a file,
>> then the dates updated themselves for all the files in the folder.
>> 
>> ggt667
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 16:11:13 -0500
> From: "Tom Sepper" <tsepper at directorschoice.travel>
> Subject: RE: [FX.php List] Not a valid path - for scheduled backups
> To: "FX.php Discussion List" <fx.php_list at mail.iviking.org>
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> 
> If you're saving to a folder of backups, for instance:
> 
> /Volume1/Backups/1
> /Volume1/Backups/2
> /Volume1/Backups/3
> 
> Make sure the Backups folder has the 'fmserver' owner and press the "Apply to
> enclosed items..." button.
> 
> 
> Tom Sepper
> Director of Information Technology
> Director's Choice Tour & Travel
> 
> P 806.762.6354
> F 806.763.7637
> 
> tsepper at directorschoice.travel
> www.directorschoicetourandtravel.com
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org on behalf of Troy Meyers
> Sent: Wed 8/8/2007 4:05 PM
> To: FX.php Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] Not a valid path - for scheduled backups
>  
> GGT,
> 
> I wish that were it. I just tried that, but no luck. Actually the Schedules
> part of the FileMaker Server Admin also indicates that, even though it keeps
> trying, the last successful backup was 5/27/2007 (other schedules successful
> in the week preceding that).
> 
> The Event.log also has reports of unsuccessful backup attempts.
> 
> Tom --
> I'm trying the change of ownership of the external drive... sure enough, one
> of the choices in the dropdown is literally "fmserver", so I changed the owner
> (it was "mini3user") but this hasn't produced the valid path indication. I'm
> going to stop and restart FMS when I can, to see if this is required to make
> the change work. I can't do that right now, I'd have employees coming running
> screaming the system is down!
> 
> -Troy
> 
> 
>> I thought I had that problem too until I pressed apple + i on a file,
>> then the dates updated themselves for all the files in the folder.
>> 
>> ggt667
> 
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> Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 23:25:18 +0200
> From: "Gjermund Gusland Thorsen" <ggt667 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] Not a valid path - for scheduled backups
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> What about writepermission/ownership of the folder that you want the
> backup to be written to?
> 
> ggt667
> 
> On 8/8/07, Tom Sepper <tsepper at directorschoice.travel> wrote:
>> If you're saving to a folder of backups, for instance:
>> 
>> /Volume1/Backups/1
>> /Volume1/Backups/2
>> /Volume1/Backups/3
>> 
>> Make sure the Backups folder has the 'fmserver' owner and press the "Apply to
>> enclosed items..." button.
>> 
>> 
>> Tom Sepper
>> Director of Information Technology
>> Director's Choice Tour & Travel
>> 
>> P 806.762.6354
>> F 806.763.7637
>> 
>> tsepper at directorschoice.travel
>> www.directorschoicetourandtravel.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org on behalf of Troy Meyers
>> Sent: Wed 8/8/2007 4:05 PM
>> To: FX.php Discussion List
>> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] Not a valid path - for scheduled backups
>> 
>> GGT,
>> 
>> I wish that were it. I just tried that, but no luck. Actually the Schedules
>> part of the FileMaker Server Admin also indicates that, even though it keeps
>> trying, the last successful backup was 5/27/2007 (other schedules successful
>> in the week preceding that).
>> 
>> The Event.log also has reports of unsuccessful backup attempts.
>> 
>> Tom --
>> I'm trying the change of ownership of the external drive... sure enough, one
>> of the choices in the dropdown is literally "fmserver", so I changed the
>> owner (it was "mini3user") but this hasn't produced the valid path
>> indication. I'm going to stop and restart FMS when I can, to see if this is
>> required to make the change work. I can't do that right now, I'd have
>> employees coming running screaming the system is down!
>> 
>> -Troy
>> 
>> 
>>> I thought I had that problem too until I pressed apple + i on a file,
>>> then the dates updated themselves for all the files in the folder.
>>> 
>>> ggt667
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 16:26:09 -0500
> From: "Tom Sepper" <tsepper at directorschoice.travel>
> Subject: RE: [FX.php List] Not a valid path - for scheduled backups
> To: "FX.php Discussion List" <fx.php_list at mail.iviking.org>
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> Right - that's exactly what I was saying.
> 
> 
> Tom Sepper
> Director of Information Technology
> Director's Choice Tour & Travel
> 
> P 806.762.6354
> F 806.763.7637
> 
> tsepper at directorschoice.travel
> www.directorschoicetourandtravel.com
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org on behalf of Gjermund Gusland
> Thorsen
> Sent: Wed 8/8/2007 4:25 PM
> To: FX.php Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] Not a valid path - for scheduled backups
>  
> What about writepermission/ownership of the folder that you want the
> backup to be written to?
> 
> ggt667
> 
> On 8/8/07, Tom Sepper <tsepper at directorschoice.travel> wrote:
>> If you're saving to a folder of backups, for instance:
>> 
>> /Volume1/Backups/1
>> /Volume1/Backups/2
>> /Volume1/Backups/3
>> 
>> Make sure the Backups folder has the 'fmserver' owner and press the "Apply to
>> enclosed items..." button.
>> 
>> 
>> Tom Sepper
>> Director of Information Technology
>> Director's Choice Tour & Travel
>> 
>> P 806.762.6354
>> F 806.763.7637
>> 
>> tsepper at directorschoice.travel
>> www.directorschoicetourandtravel.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: fx.php_list-bounces at mail.iviking.org on behalf of Troy Meyers
>> Sent: Wed 8/8/2007 4:05 PM
>> To: FX.php Discussion List
>> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] Not a valid path - for scheduled backups
>> 
>> GGT,
>> 
>> I wish that were it. I just tried that, but no luck. Actually the Schedules
>> part of the FileMaker Server Admin also indicates that, even though it keeps
>> trying, the last successful backup was 5/27/2007 (other schedules successful
>> in the week preceding that).
>> 
>> The Event.log also has reports of unsuccessful backup attempts.
>> 
>> Tom --
>> I'm trying the change of ownership of the external drive... sure enough, one
>> of the choices in the dropdown is literally "fmserver", so I changed the
>> owner (it was "mini3user") but this hasn't produced the valid path
>> indication. I'm going to stop and restart FMS when I can, to see if this is
>> required to make the change work. I can't do that right now, I'd have
>> employees coming running screaming the system is down!
>> 
>> -Troy
>> 
>> 
>>> I thought I had that problem too until I pressed apple + i on a file,
>>> then the dates updated themselves for all the files in the folder.
>>> 
>>> ggt667
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
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> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 14:27:29 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Troy Meyers <tcmeyers at troymeyers.com>
> Subject: RE: [FX.php List] Not a valid path - for scheduled backups
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> Tom,
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Actually I changed the owner at the volume level -- it's only for backups --
> and did the "Apply to enclosed items" button. I checked, and the folders
> inside all now have the "fmserver" ownership too. The path still isn't good
> according to FileMaker Server Admin, but as I said, I want to restart it when
> I have a chance to see if that's the fix.
> 
> -Troy
> 
>> If you're saving to a folder of backups, for instance:
>> 
>> /Volume1/Backups/1
>> 
>> /Volume1/Backups/2
>> 
>> /Volume1/Backups/3
>> 
>> Make sure the Backups folder has the 'fmserver' owner and press the
>> "Apply to enclosed items..." button.
>> 
>> Tom Sepper
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 19:35:09 -0500
> From: Nick <whatdoyouwant at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [FX.php List] Not a valid path - for scheduled backups
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> Per your example, I would get rid of spaces in your folder names.  Some
> programs just aren't smart enough to deal with special characters in paths.
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