This reply is actually to all three of you. Sorry I've been away a few days. Thanks for the interesting ideas, but I am still left with the basic problem. Why does the schedule say "nat a valid path" when I choose the backup location during config? The FW disk is mounted continuously, and am not having problems with it. This is a permanent ext b/u drive, not the offsite (which we run on demand and have not trouble with, btw)
It does not matter what the FW drive does when the schedule runs if the config itself says "not vaild" when I created/edit, right!? Also, when you all say "logged in/out" I assume you are talking about FMS Admin?
Now a few specific questions:
Old Advance Man (OAM) - Why do you say drive is not supposed to stay mounted when svr is run? I am not going to unplug it. In your link to the Decorte site I see no article/white paper on backups.
xochi - You mention running FMS without logging in (to the system or the server?). Obviously I am logged into the system and the server to be looking at the FMS schedule config. And NO, I do not have FMS auto starting at startup. Also, you are obviously running scheduled backups to external FW drives, which is what I cannot do. Because I can't set the path.
OK, I am not trying to stir anything up here, just get some answers. Fire back and let me know what you think.
Thanks,
Paul