Filemaker Server 5.5v2 and Backup Issues

[bartman]

OSX (10.2.3) running Filemaker Server 5.5v2. Serves up files just fine. However my backup schedules do not run. I read the install instructions before loading to the letter. Logged in as root and installed program. Restarted after install and logged in as admin user and started Server Config. Served up the files from the Server App Folder (like was said to do). I have created different B/U schedules backing up the files to different places on the harddrive plus an external volume and none run. I attempted running it by the pulldown menu Run Schedule, but that too does not initiate action. Nothing in the log other than people logging into differnt DB's. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Oh yeah, I did run fsck -y just in case - all was fine.

[bartman]

Figured it out. Not known whether this is the fault of the Original Install Disk or the v2 updater since I installed the server on different Mac with same bad results but.....all of the schedules created in the GUI are written to a file called fmserver.schd (Inside the Resources folder of the fmServer config app). I noticed the permissions of this file set for rw-r-r. I cat'd the file and nothing was in there. I thought that was strange. Called a buddy and sure enough there is both binary and ascii info in the file after a sched is created. It seems that the GUI was trying to write to this file using Group priveleges - not the owner. I chmod'd the file to 777 (rwx-rwx-rwx), recreated the schedule and noticed it wrote to the file fine. I am now backing up fine. Hopefully no one else has this kind of the problem - tough one to figure out. Also tested this by deleting the fmserver.schd. After adding a schedule into the GUI the .schd was recreated with correct permissions and backups worked correctly. For the UNIX novice I would delete the file and let the GUI recreate it. Of course a UNIX novice may not make it this far......Hope this helps someone else.

bartman