FM 5.5 Server not doing backup at all

[Don Gabo]

Hello,

I was wondering if someone can guide me in the right direction. It seen FM server 5.5 is not doing backup. i set up the schedule to run at 8:30pm every day at night. I turn on the Allow to run schedule. I also try to do a run schedule now and it didn't work either.

i am running FM 5.5 on G5 Server running mac os X server tiger 10.4.6.

any help would be appreciate it.

thank you

victor

[RPCia]

I have no experience with a Mac Server. But just to double check the obvious. On windows you have to also right click and set the item to "Enabled".

This will put a green check mark next to the item.

Other then that I would just verify your file paths exist.

Good Luck!

[Don Gabo]

Thank you for the help. i check that box is enable.

i am thinking what might be. i set up so that fmserver automatically load the databases when the server get reboot it. i am wondering if that has to do with it. since the database where not started manually but when the server got reboot it.

i will do more research into.

thanks

victor

[dkemme]

Automatically loading after reboot is very dangerous. You need the control of opening the file to only trusted users that will not open and serve a file that was close incorrectly, leading to possible corruption.

If the script will not run with the Run Now option, it is probably a problem with the script. Make sure you have selected a valid folder to copy to and that fmservd has permissions to read/write to that folder.

[wonfuji]

File permissions also matter a great deal. The user "fmsadmin" must have read/write to the backup directory. You'll see the ENABLE switch itself off if you try a test backup to a folder where permissions do not allow writes.

Edited June 19, 2006 by Guest