Windows

You can use:

NET STOP "SERVICE NAME"
and
NET START "SERVICE NAME"

to handle the service.

To schedule this, use "at".

For usage, type "at /?" in a cmd window.

Hi,
Couple of things. As per the first answer a net use command needs to be passed the 'working' name of the service rather than the name that appears in the services mmc. these are nt always the same. to find the working name type

net start
and this will return the list of services in working name format. Secondly, you shouldn't be stopping services to back up a database (is it SQL?). the idea is to backup the database using the database engine - which can be scheduled and run while the db is in use - and then back up the resulting file.

Database is progress if that helps and size is just over 2GB

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