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

[Jon Montgomery]

Troy,
    I remember those posts.  But don't remember the exact reason for the
posts now.  I just checked my backups on external drive (USB) and they
backed up this AM.  FMSA 8 on Mac OS 10.4.
    Not much help but it does work for backups to an external drive.

Jon Montgomery


On 8/8/07 12:46 PM, "Troy Meyers" <tcmeyers at troymeyers.com> wrote:

> 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
> 
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