Scheduled tasks stopped working
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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?
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As I said some posts above I did a complete uninstall and reinstall. So only one version installed.
Yes via backup list…
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well PBS files dont seem to be properly registered with windows explorer. There are several possible reasons for this.
Did you try cmd line i suggested before? Did that work?
“C:\Program Files\PowerArchiver\PABACKUP.EXE” /silent “C:\Users\user\Documents\Backups\Scripts\test. pbs”
just replace it to proper path to your files.
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(when you click on run on backup script in backup window, that is what PA does, it runs shell execute command, which is basically same thing as command line prompt).
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Using in cmd seems to work now…
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Using in cmd seems to work now…
it has to work, reason it didnt work was because of long paths and you probably did not use “”… but i figured that out before, problem was that I thought that you wrote how you tried it from explorer and it works :-)
anyway, now schedule an task using the same thing… it HAS to work… I will not accept no for an answer ;-)
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Ok… This is going to be hard for you…
I swear when I use exactly the same string as working on my cmd it does not work in scheduler…!!
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Another strange thing…
When is go to browse for PA in the scheduler it says that the path to the pbs file is not valid… But I changed the pbs files already to c:\PAscripts… How short can that be…
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Another strange thing…
When is go to browse for PA in the scheduler it says that the path to the pbs file is not valid… But I changed the pbs files already to c:\PAscripts… How short can that be…
can you browse to it? not write it in but browse to it…
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ok… Back after one week of illness…
Still doesn’t work. Sure I can browse to it…
Any new idea?
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A small step further…
I made the file association between pbs files and PA again and now at least a double click on pbs file starts PA correctly and files are backuped.But start from scheduler still doesn’t work. PA gets started and does nothing.