Guest Dennis_S Posted July 29, 2008 Posted July 29, 2008 I do a secondary backup each night to a USB Maxtor drive. These drives get switched out each day, using a different drive for each day of the week. This nightly backup job is scheduled to run at 2 AM each morning. Many times I'll come to work and find the job didn't run due to the follwing dialog box. Replace Data The requested media is not blank. It was created by another application. Do you want to continue? If I select Yes, the job starts. Is there a soft switch that can be added to the command line that automatically answers Yes if the dialog pops up? Thanks
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted July 29, 2008 Posted July 29, 2008 Re: Microsoft Backup - Replace Data prompt? "Dennis_S" <DennisS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:0888C4BE-E04A-411F-ABA3-9743EBEFC044@microsoft.com... >I do a secondary backup each night to a USB Maxtor drive. These drives get > switched out each day, using a different drive for each day of the week. > This nightly backup job is scheduled to run at 2 AM each morning. Many > times > I'll come to work and find the job didn't run due to the follwing dialog > box. > > Replace Data > The requested media is not blank. It was created by another application. > Do you want to continue? > > If I select Yes, the job starts. > > Is there a soft switch that can be added to the command line that > automatically answers Yes if the dialog pops up? > > Thanks > Let's have a look at your backup command line.
Guest Ole Weigelt Posted July 29, 2008 Posted July 29, 2008 Re: Microsoft Backup - Replace Data prompt? Just create another scheduled task that deletes the old backup file one minute before you start the backup job. "Dennis_S" <DennisS@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:0888C4BE-E04A-411F-ABA3-9743EBEFC044@microsoft.com... >I do a secondary backup each night to a USB Maxtor drive. These drives get > switched out each day, using a different drive for each day of the week. > This nightly backup job is scheduled to run at 2 AM each morning. Many > times > I'll come to work and find the job didn't run due to the follwing dialog > box. > > Replace Data > The requested media is not blank. It was created by another application. > Do you want to continue? > > If I select Yes, the job starts. > > Is there a soft switch that can be added to the command line that > automatically answers Yes if the dialog pops up? > > Thanks >
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted July 29, 2008 Posted July 29, 2008 Re: Microsoft Backup - Replace Data prompt? If this is the solution, why not keep it simple and have one single job in the form of a two-command batch file: The first command to delete the old file, the second to run the backup job? "Ole Weigelt" <o.weigelt@officeworks.de> wrote in message news:uzaNkba8IHA.4820@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > Just create another scheduled task that deletes the old backup file one > minute before you start the backup job. > > "Dennis_S" <DennisS@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag > news:0888C4BE-E04A-411F-ABA3-9743EBEFC044@microsoft.com... >>I do a secondary backup each night to a USB Maxtor drive. These drives >>get >> switched out each day, using a different drive for each day of the week. >> This nightly backup job is scheduled to run at 2 AM each morning. Many >> times >> I'll come to work and find the job didn't run due to the follwing dialog >> box. >> >> Replace Data >> The requested media is not blank. It was created by another application. >> Do you want to continue? >> >> If I select Yes, the job starts. >> >> Is there a soft switch that can be added to the command line that >> automatically answers Yes if the dialog pops up? >> >> Thanks >> >
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