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I reconfigured my backups so that I was backing up to an external drive rather than FM's "default" folder. While I can conceive of other ways to back up for redundancy's sake, I just re-routed to a firewire external drive. It worked fine--for a day. I didn't bother the to check again until a week later and noticed that nothing had been backed up since the Friday before (the day it was configured). I check the schedules to be sure they were all active--they were. Then I checked the path, they were all the same but NOW I get "Not a valid Path."

NOT A VALID PATH?! What the heck. It was valid when it was set up, the dang thing is still connected like it was last week! It hasn't moved, it's got power, I can see it. WHAT DO YOU MEAN NOT VALID??? YOU'RE MORE FICKLE THAN MY H.S. GIRLFRIEND!!! ???

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Double check the destination folder permissions. The Group should be "fmsadmin" with "Read & Write" permissions.

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I had "Ignore permissions on this drive" set. But, for the sake of trying, I tried. Nope. Still not a valid path, and it was a valid path originally and I never bothered changing the permissions then.

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I had a similar problem with a new install and a RAID drive. I searched the net and found a post that said to re-start the server, and delete and re-input the schedules. It worked for me.

Dan

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