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

[Troy Meyers]

To my great shock I just discovered that my FMS8A backup schedules haven't been being executed since 5/27/07... I know, I should have been checking. I thought I was doing OK having Retrospect backup the backups to DVD. Not if there weren't new backups.

What is odd is that the backup file path now says "Not a valid path" in the schedule setup but did originally say "Valid path" and used to work. I don't know what changed on 5/27/07 but I guess something did.

My backup drive is an external hard drive, FireWire connected. I thought it made sense to have the backups on an external.

At some time I thought I heard someone mention not being able to backup to an external drive... I thought I was misunderstanding, and thought I knew that it was working for me, so I glossed over that.

Is that the problem - the drive being external? How is having to use the startup drive good as a backup if the startup crashes?

I set up a new temporary (I hope) schedule to backup to the startup drive, but since ideally I do 14 non-overwriting backups a week, I don't have enough space there.

Any suggestions?

Does FMS9A also have this limitation?

-Troy