Help needed with Filemaker Server Backup

[Mingan]

Hello and I apologize in advance if this question has been answered elsewhere.

I recently switched my database to be hosted by Filemaker Server. I now connect to it from FM PRO 8. I used to backup the database by choosing "save a copy", however this function became "grayed out" once I switched.

I set the configuration is FM Server to back the database up to an internal harddrive, but it will not create the files. I would like to have scheduled backups to the harddrive as well as to a FTP site. Any suggestions or help welcomed. Thank you.

[Ender]

For the scheduled backups to work, the OS permissions of the destination folder must have the group "fmsadmin" with "Read & Write" permission. Also, make sure the destination path ends in a slash.

If you still have trouble, check the event.log file to see if an error shows up.

For backing up to an FTP or network drive, you'll need another method. The built-in scheduler only goes to local drives. You could use an AppleScript or cron job or something.

[Reed]

in a question related to this.... I've been using a shell script to make timestamped backups to separate drives and fileservers after doing the live backup with a staggered schedule.

In the past I was able to use FMS scheduler to trigger this script, but recently the schedule stopped working. The schedule says that it has run the script and there is no error in the log file, but no backup is made. If I run the shell script manually it works fine, and I tried deleting the schedule and making a new one to no avail.

I ended up scheduling the script with cron, but I'm at a loss as to why FMS stopped running the script. The only thing I'd changed recently was running some OS security updates.

Edited April 5, 2007 by Guest