Scheduled backup doesn't start if credentials are different
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 1:39 am
I'm using the latest version - v5.3 Build 704 on a Windows 7 Pro PC which is in a Windows workgroup.
I created a backup job using the windows username Jim. I want the backup to run even if the user is not logged in. Jim is part of the local administrators group. Jim doesn't have a login password and doesn't want to have one! Since I cannot schedule a backup job using an account that doesn't have a password, I enabled the local administrator account, gave it a password and figured I could use those credentials to run the backup job.
First off, the backup job disappears from the Fbackup Scheduler window if I don't use the same credentials for the backup job as the current logged in user. So the "scheduler" portion of the backup job I created using Jim's account is gone or invisible. So I have to go to the Windows Task Scheduler to see the Fbackup job. Based on the backup test I did, in the Windows Task Scheduler, the "Last run Results" status is 0x0, which means it ran successfully. Yet nothing was done. In the Fbackup Job tab, the job status for that backup doesn't show the backup ever ran and the backup log has nothing either!
So it looks like Fbackup updates the Windows Scheduled Task status and quits without doing the backup.
If I change the Windows credential in the scheduled backup job to be Jim, the backup works as expected and the job re-appears in the Fbackup Scheduler.
Ideally,it would be nice if I could schedule a backup job with an account that doesn't have a password. BTW, for the need of a password...is that a Windows requirement or an Fbackup requirement? If a password is required, then please fix the above issue.
Thanks
Pierre
I created a backup job using the windows username Jim. I want the backup to run even if the user is not logged in. Jim is part of the local administrators group. Jim doesn't have a login password and doesn't want to have one! Since I cannot schedule a backup job using an account that doesn't have a password, I enabled the local administrator account, gave it a password and figured I could use those credentials to run the backup job.
First off, the backup job disappears from the Fbackup Scheduler window if I don't use the same credentials for the backup job as the current logged in user. So the "scheduler" portion of the backup job I created using Jim's account is gone or invisible. So I have to go to the Windows Task Scheduler to see the Fbackup job. Based on the backup test I did, in the Windows Task Scheduler, the "Last run Results" status is 0x0, which means it ran successfully. Yet nothing was done. In the Fbackup Job tab, the job status for that backup doesn't show the backup ever ran and the backup log has nothing either!
So it looks like Fbackup updates the Windows Scheduled Task status and quits without doing the backup.
If I change the Windows credential in the scheduled backup job to be Jim, the backup works as expected and the job re-appears in the Fbackup Scheduler.
Ideally,it would be nice if I could schedule a backup job with an account that doesn't have a password. BTW, for the need of a password...is that a Windows requirement or an Fbackup requirement? If a password is required, then please fix the above issue.
Thanks
Pierre