Microsoft Backup - Replace Data prompt?

[Guest Dennis_S]

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 \(MVP\)]

Re: Microsoft Backup - Replace Data prompt?

 

 

"Dennis_S" <DennisS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

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>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]

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

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>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 \(MVP\)]

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

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> 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

>>

>