I set up daily backups in FileMaker Server Admin.

They are all enabled. Path is validated.

They are to go in folders like the default "backups" folder on the server, but each folder is named for the day it's backed up ("MonBU" "TueBU" etc.)

"Allow Schedules To Run" is checked under Action.

The schedules do not run, even if I click "Run Now" under Action.

Why won't they backup schedules run?

What's really weird is that some of them ran on Jun 20, but never again.

Thanks.

I would definately double check the paths again. It should be something like:

filewin:/C:/Program Files/FileMaker/FileMaker Server/Data/Backups/MonBU/

Try removing the older files from the backup folders. If you don't have the right permissions set on those files, FM Server won't be able to write over them. More details here:

http://www.fmforums.com/forum/showtopic.php?tid/179179/

I found the problem: my partition size on the server is too small.

I found this when I tried to do a manual backup by copying the databases to another folder on the server. Part way through the process I got a "disk full" notice.

FileMaker Server Admin does not indicate why a backup fails. It simply doesn't run.

What I have to do is ask IT to expand my partition to about 6 GB. The current total size of all my FP8 databases is 389 MB. I had scheduled ten different backups, or a bit under 4 GB total. It was clogging at about four backups, then refusing to make or overwrite any more.

In the meantime, I'm reducing my scheduled backups to only two: a nightly one and a Mon/Wed/Fri one.