FM Server 7 can't backup to an external drive??

[panache]

Hello. My colleague is running Filemaker Server 7 on an Xserve, and is having trouble getting it to backup with Server's Scheduler to an external drive. For example, look at the screenshot linked below:

http://dave.typepad.com/server_screenshot.gif

Each Friday, we want to backup all databases to a folder named "Friday" on an external Firewire drive that connected to the Xserve (and so on with every day of the week). How do we specify the correct path in the "Back up Folder" field?

Thanks. It's been bothering us for a while.

[Reed]

I just make all my backups to the normal backup folder in the Filemaker Server Folder, and then run a script that copies the backups to the external drive and the network file server.

But if you look in the terminal app for the external drives, you'll find the path is a subdirectory of the /Volumes directory.

I've found that Firewire drives do not stay mounted if there is no user logged in. This also seems to be true of network file servers. So I've had to leave the user logged in, and just go to the login screen to lock it down.

[Steven H. Blackwell]

've found that Firewire drives do not stay mounted if there is no user logged in. This also seems to be true of network file servers

Try the UNC format or the filewin// format for the share on the network file server. That works when the daemon/service is run with no users logged in--and that's the most secure way to run FMS.

Steven