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by edavid

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I have installed Veritas Backup MyPC on a workstation.
I have scheduled a number of backups to run at different times. The scheduler uses the one that comes with Windows 2000.
Here is my problem.
The tasks donot run as scheduled all the time. IfI go into the scheduler in the morning and try to manually run the task nothing happens.
I then restart the workstation then go back into the scheduler and manually run the task and it works. The backup runs and averthing is OK.
So what is causingthe Task Scheduler in Win 2000 to not run tasks?

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by rgrowcock

I've had a similar problem getting a Task to run too. I found several things that might or might not help.

1. Check your system time and date as well as when the task is supposed to run.

2. Can your task run at login, startup, specific time, etc.?

3. Can your Veritas specify when to run instead of relying on Task Manager? Is Veritas trying to backup in incremental mode? If so, if no files have changed, nothing will be backed up. The task may have ran, but nothing was changed, so Veritas blew through it's task.

4. Is the syntax correct for the task to run completely? This was my biggest headache! Once I had the correct syntax, then things worked. But you stated if you restart and manually run the task it works. Hum.

I believe I would go back and check my settings and when the tasks should run. Maybe put a time sync program on that system that will adjust the system time periodically. NTPtime works pretty good for me. Hope I've given you a starting point at the very least.

Roger

by edavid

If I reboot the workstation and then go into Task Scheduler to run the job and tell it to runn it works fine. Also if after rebooting I change the scheduled time to start say in 5 minutes, then lock the workstation the job starts and runs just fine.
For no reason that I can find the Task Scheduler just quits working and the only way to get it to work is to reboot.

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