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

[John Lannon]

Hi Troy,

Filemaker Server is strict about paths to backup folders. The proper format
for the path to your backup folder should be:

filemac:/VolumeName/FolderName

On Windows, substitute filewin for filemac.

Perhaps your external Volume (firewire drive) is not properly mounted? The
external Volume should be visible on your Desktop, or at least, it should be
listed in your /Volumes directory (if you're comfortable with the Terminal,
fire it up, cd to /Volumes, then ls to make sure that your external volume
is mounted).

if your external volume is called "Lacie Disk" and the backup folder on your
external volume is called "Backups", your valid path should read:

filemac:/Lacie Disk/Backups/

Make sure you have a trailing slash in place. If you've verified the above
and it's still not working, there's likely some sort of I/O issue with your
external drive.

Hope that's of some help.

Regards,
John



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> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 10:46:05 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Troy Meyers <tcmeyers at troymeyers.com>
> Subject: [FX.php List] Not a valid path - for scheduled backups
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> 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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