I don't know what's going on here if any body can enlighten me I'd really appreciate it. The server stalls during back-up and displays the error --'running out of time to back up.....' . Is it worth running Norton to look for corrupted files???

Give us some details.

What machine are you running on?

What version of the operating systems are you running?

What version of FM are you running?

What is your backup software?

What is your backup device?

What applications are running on the server?

-bd

Hi there,

we are running filemaker-pro server 5 on an i-mac which servers about 8 clients (the OS is 8.6). Back-up is to a disk on a file server (which performs local back-up via Retrospect).

Is this enough info (I'm a little sketchy myself!)...

How are you making the original backup? With the built-in back-up utility or some other way?

iMacs don't make good FileMaker Server CPU's because of their cheap, unreliable hard drives.

And does the message occur near the start of the backup processs or near what you think should be the end? It is entirely possible that this is an inappropriate error message. That is, an error could be happening and FM Server is only able to throw up that dialog as a response.

More diagnosis needed.

Old Advance Man

thanks for the advice. I've just got into work but I'll post the info as soon as I can. Thanks again.

the server displays the error message just before completion of back-up, with about 20( files to go. According to my information back-up is through the built in back up facility.

There could be a bad file. Stop FileMAker Server and then one by one manually copy the files to the backup volume to see if one fails to complete its action.

Let us know how this works.

Old Advance Man