I have yet to successfully run a scheduled M/S backup due
to password problems. M/S help suggests running under
administrator, this failed also. Why the hell do we need
passwords just to run backups? Surely backups take priority
over security, it certainly does in the real computer world.

Re: Scheduled backups password probs by S

S
Tue Sep 14 05:28:39 CDT 2004

Please elaborate? The failure to start the backup should result in some kind
of error message - see event log. The password is required for every process
to log on to the system.

--
Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MVP, MCSE
-= F1 is the key =-

"J Richardson" <john@kira.mcc.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:1b3701c49a37$f3b1c890$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> I have yet to successfully run a scheduled M/S backup due
> to password problems. M/S help suggests running under
> administrator, this failed also. Why the hell do we need
> passwords just to run backups? Surely backups take priority
> over security, it certainly does in the real computer world.



Re: Scheduled backups password probs by Roger

Roger
Tue Sep 14 05:51:55 CDT 2004

All processes run within a login session, hence an account
needs to be used to provide this to a scheduled task.
Accounts that have the user rights to backup and to restore the
filesystem objects do have some ability to bypass NTFS security
when running processes that use the backup/restore calls.

Perhaps you could describe how your scheduled backups fail,
what messages are given, whether the task's equivalent can be
run when logged in with the account, whether this M/S backup
is the ntbackup.exe provided by MS with the OS, any messages
in the event logs at the time of task startup, etc.
and someone here might be able to assist.

--
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows Server System: Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4) MCDBA
"J Richardson" <john@kira.mcc.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:1b3701c49a37$f3b1c890$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> I have yet to successfully run a scheduled M/S backup due
> to password problems. M/S help suggests running under
> administrator, this failed also. Why the hell do we need
> passwords just to run backups? Surely backups take priority
> over security, it certainly does in the real computer world.