Guest Bob Posted July 14, 2008 Posted July 14, 2008 Hi there, I am running Windows XP Home and have the backup program loaded from the CD. I try to run the program and would like to have it backup the system every night. I have tried numerous times to use the backup wizard to do this and each time I am asked for the user name and password. I have never used a user name or password in the past but added a password to the string of letters and numbers they gave as a user name and seemed to get through it. However, everytime it should run I have a message on the scheduled tasks that says, "could not start." I would apprecate some help in learning what I am doing wrong. Thanks for your time and knowledge. Bob -- Bob662
Guest sgopus Posted July 14, 2008 Posted July 14, 2008 RE: MS Backup Program Take a look in event viewer for the error and report back here what it said. "Bob" wrote: > Hi there, I am running Windows XP Home and have the backup program loaded > from the CD. I try to run the program and would like to have it backup the > system every night. I have tried numerous times to use the backup wizard to > do this and each time I am asked for the user name and password. I have > never used a user name or password in the past but added a password to the > string of letters and numbers they gave as a user name and seemed to get > through it. However, everytime it should run I have a message on the > scheduled tasks that says, "could not start." I would apprecate some help in > learning what I am doing wrong. Thanks for your time and knowledge. Bob > -- > Bob662
Guest Bob Posted July 14, 2008 Posted July 14, 2008 RE: MS Backup Program sgopus, thanks for the quick response. The event viewer shows the type as error; Source as ntbackup; Category as none; Event as B001; User as N/A and Computer as owner. There were no error messages on the scheduled backups as they never began but the backups that I start manually show that they were ended as I had stopped them myself. I hope this helps or is what you are asking for. -- Bob662 "sgopus" wrote: > Take a look in event viewer for the error and report back here what it said. > > "Bob" wrote: > > > Hi there, I am running Windows XP Home and have the backup program loaded > > from the CD. I try to run the program and would like to have it backup the > > system every night. I have tried numerous times to use the backup wizard to > > do this and each time I am asked for the user name and password. I have > > never used a user name or password in the past but added a password to the > > string of letters and numbers they gave as a user name and seemed to get > > through it. However, everytime it should run I have a message on the > > scheduled tasks that says, "could not start." I would apprecate some help in > > learning what I am doing wrong. Thanks for your time and knowledge. Bob > > -- > > Bob662
Guest Patrick Keenan Posted July 14, 2008 Posted July 14, 2008 Re: MS Backup Program "Bob" <Bob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:009EBF55-389F-4D90-A3AF-6A1CC4B1739C@microsoft.com... > Hi there, I am running Windows XP Home and have the backup program loaded > from the CD. I try to run the program and would like to have it backup > the > system every night. I have tried numerous times to use the backup wizard > to > do this and each time I am asked for the user name and password. I have > never used a user name or password in the past but added a password to the > string of letters and numbers they gave as a user name and seemed to get > through it. However, everytime it should run I have a message on the > scheduled tasks that says, "could not start." I would apprecate some help > in > learning what I am doing wrong. Thanks for your time and knowledge. Bob > -- > Bob662 By default, if you attempt to run a scheduled task on a local user account that has no password, it will silently fail. This is by design, as a security precaution, and is not limited to Backup. It's easy to get past this. Simply add a password to your user account, and tell the scheduler what it is. It is possible to turn off the default behaviour, but it's not prudent from a security standpoint. Also, on XP Home ntbackup has some very annoying limitations; it may well appear to you that you can do a complete system backup, but you won't realize that you can't until it fails partway through. And there is no way around that other than using a less feature-poor backup system. There are many, and many people rely on imaging programs like Acronis TrueImage. HTH -pk
Guest Bob Posted July 14, 2008 Posted July 14, 2008 Re: MS Backup Program Patrick, thanks for the information. I'll give that a try and see how I do. When I was checking out the FAQs I saw that many folks recommended Acronis TrueImage. I had purchased Retrospect 7.5 but when I took my CPU in for a problem, the computer repairman said that Retrospect 7.5 had to many whistles and bells for a home computer. He recommended the ntbackup as simple to use and great for my needs. Thanks again. -- Bob662 "Patrick Keenan" wrote: > "Bob" <Bob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:009EBF55-389F-4D90-A3AF-6A1CC4B1739C@microsoft.com... > > Hi there, I am running Windows XP Home and have the backup program loaded > > from the CD. I try to run the program and would like to have it backup > > the > > system every night. I have tried numerous times to use the backup wizard > > to > > do this and each time I am asked for the user name and password. I have > > never used a user name or password in the past but added a password to the > > string of letters and numbers they gave as a user name and seemed to get > > through it. However, everytime it should run I have a message on the > > scheduled tasks that says, "could not start." I would apprecate some help > > in > > learning what I am doing wrong. Thanks for your time and knowledge. Bob > > -- > > Bob662 > > By default, if you attempt to run a scheduled task on a local user account > that has no password, it will silently fail. This is by design, as a > security precaution, and is not limited to Backup. > > It's easy to get past this. Simply add a password to your user account, > and tell the scheduler what it is. It is possible to turn off the default > behaviour, but it's not prudent from a security standpoint. > > Also, on XP Home ntbackup has some very annoying limitations; it may well > appear to you that you can do a complete system backup, but you won't > realize that you can't until it fails partway through. And there is no way > around that other than using a less feature-poor backup system. There > are many, and many people rely on imaging programs like Acronis TrueImage. > > HTH > -pk > >
Guest Bob Posted July 15, 2008 Posted July 15, 2008 Re: MS Backup Program Patrick, I did as you suggested and added a password to my user account. The first try after that did not work but then I realized I had not restarted my computer after adding the password. I restarted the computer and ntbackup started like a charm. I really do appreciate your time to share your knowledge with others. I would also like to thank sgopus for their time as well. Have a great week, Bob -- Bob662 "Bob" wrote: > Patrick, thanks for the information. I'll give that a try and see how I do. > When I was checking out the FAQs I saw that many folks recommended Acronis > TrueImage. I had purchased Retrospect 7.5 but when I took my CPU in for a > problem, the computer repairman said that Retrospect 7.5 had to many whistles > and bells for a home computer. He recommended the ntbackup as simple to use > and great for my needs. Thanks again. > -- > Bob662 > > > "Patrick Keenan" wrote: > > > "Bob" <Bob@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > > news:009EBF55-389F-4D90-A3AF-6A1CC4B1739C@microsoft.com... > > > Hi there, I am running Windows XP Home and have the backup program loaded > > > from the CD. I try to run the program and would like to have it backup > > > the > > > system every night. I have tried numerous times to use the backup wizard > > > to > > > do this and each time I am asked for the user name and password. I have > > > never used a user name or password in the past but added a password to the > > > string of letters and numbers they gave as a user name and seemed to get > > > through it. However, everytime it should run I have a message on the > > > scheduled tasks that says, "could not start." I would apprecate some help > > > in > > > learning what I am doing wrong. Thanks for your time and knowledge. Bob > > > -- > > > Bob662 > > > > By default, if you attempt to run a scheduled task on a local user account > > that has no password, it will silently fail. This is by design, as a > > security precaution, and is not limited to Backup. > > > > It's easy to get past this. Simply add a password to your user account, > > and tell the scheduler what it is. It is possible to turn off the default > > behaviour, but it's not prudent from a security standpoint. > > > > Also, on XP Home ntbackup has some very annoying limitations; it may well > > appear to you that you can do a complete system backup, but you won't > > realize that you can't until it fails partway through. And there is no way > > around that other than using a less feature-poor backup system. There > > are many, and many people rely on imaging programs like Acronis TrueImage. > > > > HTH > > -pk > > > >
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