http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ Discussion forum for FBackup users. en Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:06:40 +0000 http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/scheduled-bakups#post-3594 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:46:02 +0000 Admin 3594@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>In FBackup you can keep only one version of the backup.<br /> If you want to keep multiple versions of the backup, please use our commercial edition: <a href="http://www.Backup4all.com">Backup4all</a> </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/backups-not-working-for-newbie-me#post-3592 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:42:42 +0000 Admin 3592@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>That message appears when the backup job that was supposed to run, does not exist. Please make sure the backup job with the same name exists in FBackup. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/backups-not-working-for-newbie-me#post-3582 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:20:56 +0000 Mikey 3582@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Have not had success with scheduled backups, tried using built in scheduler and windows scheduler, no difference. </p> <p>This is what has been happening typically: Yesterday morning at about 6am I tried again, set backup of certain folders for 7:15am. It worked, program started at 7:15am and it backed what I wanted successfully. I had also set it to do that daily, so this morning when I checked, the scheduled backup did not run and gave an error message saying "&lt;filename&gt; is not a valid backup job" (or something like that.) This has gone on like this for a week or so now and I am unsure of what to do next. Thanks for any help you are able to give. Sorry if this has been asked beofre but I could not seem to find a similar posting. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/scheduled-bakups#post-3580 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:20:53 +0000 dilgeer 3580@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Dears,<br /> I have installed the FBackup on Windows 2003 Server and its working fine.<br /> My question/problem is that I want to take full backups of the folder on daily basis, I have scheduled it and it executes fine, the problem comes that when it takes backup on Day 2; it deletes the backup of day 1 (means previous day backup is deleted)!<br /> So, how can I solve this problem, that each day is saved and available!</p> <p>Waiting for advice...</p> <p>Dilgeer </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/backup-of-emails-and-address-book#post-3568 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:46:40 +0000 Admin 3568@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>The .pst files can be open only by Outlook. You can compare the size and date of the file in destination with the size and date of the source .pst file. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/backup-of-emails-and-address-book#post-3560 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:00:52 +0000 Lefaivre 3560@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>I use Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 (standard edition) and version 4.5 was installed recently on my pc by a professional. The backup is saved on an external drive. It does a backup of everything I have in "My documents" (which is on my C drive) and should also includes a backup of all my emails/address book. How can I confirm that my emails/address book are being backup. For "My documents" I know it is working as I can access the external drive and view my documents but I cannot access the folder related to microsoft as I get the following message: 'You are attempting to open a file of type ‘office data file’ (.pst). These files are used by the operating system and by various programs. Editing or modifying them could damage your system. If you still want to open the file click Open With otherwise click Cancel'. Any suggestions. Thank you </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/how-are-backups-tested#post-3497 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:48:45 +0000 Admin 3497@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>Can you run the backup manually?<br /> Did you use the Windows scheduler or the built in scheduler option from FBackup? </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/delete-zip-files-from-backup#post-3493 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:06:52 +0000 Admin 3493@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>The zip files can be deleted like any other file on your computer.<br /> Please make sure you have enough permissions to delete files from your computer. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/delete-zip-files-from-backup#post-3480 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:34:19 +0000 betanc 3480@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>I cannot delete zipped full backup files using Windows Explorer. What can I use to remove them? </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/how-are-backups-tested#post-3471 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 05:34:37 +0000 donna 3471@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>I just install FBackup... and stores it in our network. Out of 15 computers.. only 5 PC's are backing up. We have created same configuration like with others but when we checked our destination network. it does not back up.. Can you help me.. Thanks. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/backup-date-in-destination#post-3441 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:43:09 +0000 Admin 3441@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>That feature is available only in our commercial edition: <a href="http://www.Backup4all.com">Backup4all</a> </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/can-filters-optionally-include-file-size#post-3438 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:30:36 +0000 Admin 3438@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>That feature is available only in our commercial edition: <a href="http://www.Backup4all.com">Backup4all</a> </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/can-filters-optionally-include-file-size#post-3430 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:09:00 +0000 PeterB 3430@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Is is possible to include file size in filters.</p> <p>eg: [Exclude/Include] all .DAT files (*.DAT) which are &gt;100MB </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/backup-date-in-destination#post-3427 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:55:50 +0000 Maverick977 3427@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>I've been using FBackup for about a month or so now for a small server I run, and would love to say that it's a great program and recommend it for anyone.</p> <p>I do have a question, however. Is it possible to create backups where the path includes the date of the backup? This would make it real convenient if I have to restore an older backup than the most recent. Essentially, I'd want a backup that looks as follows:</p> <p>c:\Destination Folder + [date of backup]\</p> <p>Is this possible to do? And if so, how? </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/incredibly-slow-backup#post-3420 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 07:59:31 +0000 Admin 3420@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>Please try to copy a large file from source to destination using Windows Explorer. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/incredibly-slow-backup#post-3419 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:30:27 +0000 cameraz 3419@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>How do I check to see what the read/write speed should be? Thanks. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/incredibly-slow-backup#post-3415 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:16:47 +0000 Admin 3415@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>The backup time should be only few hours.<br /> Please make sure there is no read/write speed problem. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/incredibly-slow-backup#post-3412 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:38:35 +0000 cameraz 3412@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>I am in the process of backing up portions of three hard drives to a 1TB drive. I have an approximate total of 100GB of video, photo and music files on these drives. The backup has been going on for eight (8) days (DAYS!) now. </p> <p>I know 100 GB is a lot of data, but eight days? I expect it will be another two days before this backup is completed.</p> <p>Btw, all of the source drives are 7200 rpm, two are internal drives, the other is connected by USB. The destination drive is also USB. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/username-and-password#post-3387 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:26:50 +0000 Admin 3387@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>On a daily basis, you should use Mirror backup to copy only new and modified files. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/case-changes-after-backup#post-3384 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:08:08 +0000 Admin 3384@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>Please note FBackup does not preserve the case for each name. If there are two files/folders with the same name, only the fist one is stored "MEDIA" and the second one ("media") will have the same uppercase as the first one when restored. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/how-are-backups-tested#post-3375 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:50:20 +0000 Admin 3375@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>It calculates the CRC for each file in destination and compares it with the CRC stored in catalog. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/problem-with-error-messages-going-from-45-to-46#post-3374 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:48:49 +0000 Admin 3374@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>FBackup 4.6 installed over 4.5 version.<br /> There could be a overwritten permission issue, that is why you cannot install it in the default folder.<br /> You just need to manually delete the old folder in Program Files and continue running FBackup from the new folder. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/case-changes-after-backup#post-3371 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 19:23:02 +0000 hbarnwheeler 3371@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Just used fbackup 4.6 (build 260) on Windows 7 64 bit to run my first backup and noticed that it changed the case of a folder name on the destination drive. I:\media became V:\MEDIA I haven't spent much time looking around, but so far this seems to be the only occurrence of a case change. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/how-are-backups-tested#post-3370 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 18:26:46 +0000 hbarnwheeler 3370@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Just a quick question about how fbackup verifies the backup when "test after backup" is selected. Does it create and compare hashes or does it do something simpler (i.e. check to ensure file sizes are the same)? </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/problem-with-error-messages-going-from-45-to-46#post-3369 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:31:08 +0000 dennisjohn2 3369@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Since I couldn't solve the error loading problem, I loaded 4.6 in a new directory C:\Program files (x86)/Softland\fbackup4plus. No problems works great. Now I want to delete FBackup4.5 files using the uninstall feature. Will this delete my scheduler now in 4.6 if so what is the work around? </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/error-message-after-backup#post-3366 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:00:20 +0000 Admin 3366@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>1. To find a warning in the log file, please search for "Warning:" in that file.<br /> 2. There isn't a single action to perform as it depends on the warning reason.<br /> Please send us the log file to info[at]fbackup[dot]com, to see what the problem is. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/logs-overwritten#post-3359 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:46:38 +0000 MikeyChris 3359@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>OK, after months of fooling with this, I have found that **IF** I do several backups in THE SAME DAY all the log files are in the log folder. However, doing a backup on each day causes the previous day's log to be overwritten with the current day's log (the file names are different).</p> <p>Not sure why I am the only one on the planet with this problem, but that happens to me a lot, so it must be me :-)</p> <p>I only have two files in my log folder - FBackup.log (listing of all backups run since the file was last purged) and the daily log for the last day that a daily was run. Today I have a third log for the monthly backup I just did manually but it will probably be gone tomorrow.</p> <p>I will change the attribute of today's log to read only and see what happens tonight. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/error-message-after-backup#post-3357 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:36:08 +0000 barrierexpress 3357@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,<br /> After my last Backup,I received the message that the Backup was successful with 16 error warnings.I searched the log,but couldn`t see any errors,but there again, the log was so huge I could have missed them.</p> <p>What I want to know is 1.How do I quickly find what the errors were?.And 2.Once I find them what am I supposed to do about them?</p> <p>Could someone please elaborate.</p> <p>Thanks,<br /> barrierexpress </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/username-and-password#post-3356 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:52:19 +0000 ChrisG 3356@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Thanks! </p> <p>Changing to the built-in scheduler worked a treat last night. This morning I have a successful backup message.</p> <p>One more question if you have time - I am a bit confused about the difference between full back up and mirror back up. Is mirror the best to use from now on, so that it just adds any new files or files that have been changed? Does a full back up take much longer, and therefore not necessary to do on a daily basis? The descriptions given for each type of backup do not make it really clear (to me anyway) when or why to select one or the other. Thanks for your help. </p> http://www.fbackup.com/forum/topic/username-and-password#post-3335 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:57:42 +0000 Admin 3335@http://www.fbackup.com/forum/ <p>Hi,</p> <p>If you select "With Windows Scheduler" option in Backup Properties->Scheduler, you need to use your Windows login username and password.</p> <p>If you don't have a password, you can use the second option "With Built-in scheduler" which does not require a password. </p>