[FX.php List] Backing up to an external drive

[Troy Meyers]

Jay,

Thanks for the further info.

Using Get Info on the external drive, I just verified that Owner is fmserver Read/Write, and just selected Group as fmadmin Read/Write, and propagated that change to all the enclosed folders using the "Apply to enclosed items" ...and I verified that that "took" by looking at the Get Info permissions of one of the inner folders.

Unfortunately, the backup paths still come up as "Not a valid path"

-Troy


> Sorry about that Troy. After I wrote that  I realized I was looking   at
> it from the point of view as a Mac OS X Terminal user:
> 
> fmserver:fmsadmin = owner:group
> 
> Since you are using Mac OSX and mentioned using the include  
> "enclosing" items, I believe that is synonymous for executing.
> 
> Anyway, I just took a look at my server setup and it's backup to a  
> drive that is NOT the boot drive. My path is the following:
> 
> filemac:/160GB_RAID/Backups/DBBackup/
> 
> filemac:/<drive name>/<folder>/
> 
> Make sure you have the correct syntax as well! I didn't even think of  
> that until I saw this. You have to make sure that you have the "/" in  
> the right places. If this seems to be the problem and if you get the  
> chance, let me know what path YOU are trying to put in.
> 
> When I got info on the "DBBackup" folder, I see the following: Owner:
> fmserver
> 
> Group: fmsadmin
> 
> Let me know if any of this helps...or if more help is needed.
> 
> Jay