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

[Leo R. Lundgren]

I once experienced that error, at that time I think it was simply a  
missing / at the end. Try that, not sure it'll help though :)

-|


8 aug 2007 kl. 19.52 skrev 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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