Scheduled tasks stopped working
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Can’t you do your own scheduler… :-) Had some time ago also problems with the windows scheduler…
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OK… today something very stange happened… As always scheduler did start the PA. Stuck. Now I think I know why. It seems that in lates PA there is a problem with the path or something. Whenever I start pbs from PA now it says: The system cannot finde the specified file. Very strange. I try another path to the pbs files… Maybe that works…
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OK… Didn’t work either… I am pretty sure it is something with PA. Other scheduled tasks work great. I use Windows 2008 Sp2… Maybe there is an issue with that.??
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could you add admin rights to the scheduled task?
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I had this problem when I tried to backup stuff from the program files folder. PA needed admin rights
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Yes I did. Task is running as domain admin.
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Did a complete uninstall. Installed latest version. Configured everything new.
Still not working. Like always. Task is starting and then… nothing happens…
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sometimes admin does have access to all the files, thats certainly the case in vista (if files are owned by another user, and win server 2008 is based on vista).
Why dont you create simple pbs that compresses 1.txt file from C:\1\ folder for instance
and try running that through scheduler. See if that works.
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Tried and didn’t work. Event tried another scheduler (VisualCron). Same behavior. Task starts and nothing happens…
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Tried and didn’t work. Event tried another scheduler (VisualCron). Same behavior. Task starts and nothing happens…
well thats crazy ;-)
can you send us one of those pbs scripts, zipped to support @ conexware . com, and we will try it here.
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Mail is out…
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So what is the right command to put in scheduler
something like pabackup.exe /silent /…/blabla.pbs
right?
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simply selecting an pbs file will work, without any refference to pabackup - thats the same way it works when you click on pbs in explorer.
What backup does is calls pabackup.exe with /silent switch (if so set).
However thing to note there is that you have to put “” around any long paths or else you will be getting that error (cant find script) that you are getting… so it should be:
“C:\Program Files\PowerArchiver\PABACKUP.EXE” /silent “C:\Users\user\Documents\Backups\Scripts\test.pbs”
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thats what you can run from cmd line…
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ok… I guess we are coming more near.
When I doubleclick a pbs a window flashes up, closes immediately and the pbs file looks like this…
[General]
Archive=.zipx
TimeStamp=0
TimeStampText=
TimeStampMode=0
ScanArchive=0
Overwritef=0
AddQueue=0
AddLocal=0
AddLocal2=0
AddLocal3=0
LocalDir2=
LocalDir3=
IncludeSubFolders=0
IncHidden=0
Compression=0
CompressionM=0
Action=0
RelativeFolderInfo=0
ShowDone=0
RunSilent=0
RunSilentMode=0
GrowZip=0
UseOptimized=0
AddArchiveBit=0
AddSolid=0
WriteD=0
ResetArchive=0
UseSpanning=0
CSpanSize=
TestArchive=0
LogToFile=0
LogFile=
EmailLog=0
Encmode=0
Hidepassword=0[FileTime]
FTMode=0
FTDays=0
FTHours=0
FTMinutes=0
FTDate=0
[FileSize]
FSMode=0
FSSize=0
FSSizeMode=0
[Schedule]
Mode=0
Time=0
Days=[CD]
BurnArchive=0FtpArchive=0
FtpLimit=
Directory=eMailArchive=0
Smtp=
Port=
To=
From=
Text=Subject=
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ALL settings are deleted…!!
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so now doubleclicking on pbs does not work either? :-).
Maybe we should try everything from the start, to see what actually works or not, because it has been rollercoaster ride ;-)
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Doubleclicking did never work.
Only thing worked is starting the pbs file from within the PA app. Doing my backups now like this.
Open PA, klick on pbs and then click on run. Works perfectly…!! -
Doubleclicking did never work.
Only thing worked is starting the pbs file from within the PA app. Doing my backups now like this.
Open PA, klick on pbs and then click on run. Works perfectly…!!thats very different ;-).
do you have different versions of PA installed?
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its getting clearer now - when you say it works from inside PA, you mean via backup list, right?
