Microsoft Backup - Replace Data prompt?

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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
 
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.
 
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
>
 
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
>>
>
 
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