Vantage Backup with AT Command

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I had, what sounds like the same problem you describe and someone from the
group was kind enough to tell me that the computer you run the AT on has to
have the security to run it. Thus by going into My Computer - Scheduled
Tasks be sure that the Run as is set to administrator and be sure to click
the set password. Worked for me.

Best Wishes,
Darren Mann

-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Vander Galien [mailto:randyv@...]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 10:31 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Vantage Backup with AT Command


James,



I encountered a similar situation using the Scheduled Tasks feature
(W2K). I had contacted support and even though Epicor's documentation
indicates that mapped drive letters can be used to direct the backup
copy to another machine, they indicated that some clients have been
successful doing exactly what you did. My solution was to self reference
the server instead of using a mapped drive letter IE; \\servername\path
<file:///\\servername\path> , go figure



In Christ

Randy Vander Galien



-----Original Message-----
From: James Piper [mailto:admin@...]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 10:12 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Vantage Backup with AT Command



Okay I have my backvan.bat running and copying my file every night just
fine
Now I want to add a second operation to back vantage up to another
server (for redundancy)
Here is my batch file

echo Running Backup...
@echo off

net use x: \\server2\vntgbk (This is the share that I created on the
other server)

V:
cd \epic52\progress\bin
vntgbkup online V:\epic52\vantage\db\vantage x:\epic52.3
cd\backup

It won't run with the at command scheduling it at 2am
Any ideas why not?


J.P. Piper
Systems Administrator
MECO, Inc
2121 S. Main St
Paris, IL 61944
(217) 465-7575 ext 201
Fax (217) 465-5230
Email: <mailto:admin@...> admin@...




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Okay I have my backvan.bat running and copying my file every night just
fine
Now I want to add a second operation to back vantage up to another
server (for redundancy)
Here is my batch file

echo Running Backup...
@echo off

net use x: \\server2\vntgbk (This is the share that I created on the
other server)

V:
cd \epic52\progress\bin
vntgbkup online V:\epic52\vantage\db\vantage x:\epic52.3
cd\backup

It won't run with the at command scheduling it at 2am
Any ideas why not?


J.P. Piper
Systems Administrator
MECO, Inc
2121 S. Main St
Paris, IL 61944
(217) 465-7575 ext 201
Fax (217) 465-5230
Email: <mailto:admin@...> admin@...




[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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A while back I was trying to do this same thing, and I couldn't get it to
work. I finally ended up with 2 steps, the first step was an at command to
run the back-up to a different folder on the Vantage server and the second
step was an at command from the destination server which copied the file
from the vantage server to the destination server.



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The batch file I run on the destination server to copy the backup file from
the Vantage server is as follows:

net use z: \\nmepicor\backvant /u:[domain]\[userid] [password]
copy z:\backup.1 E:\Users\VntgBack
net use z: /delete



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We did it like this:

Step 1: Backup runs
Step 2: Backup.1 copies to another server
Just map a drive to the general area on the second server.
here's the .bat file:
@echo off
rem This will copy the backup from the Vantage Server to another server and
automatically overwrite.
xcopy c:\backup\backup.1 m:\52bkup\backup.1 /Y

Simple, but worked well for us. We checked the copied file occasionally to
see the date & time modified to be sure it was working.

Chris Cerer

-----Original Message-----
From: sarah.vareschi@... [mailto:sarah.vareschi@...]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 10:17 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Vantage Backup with AT Command


A while back I was trying to do this same thing, and I couldn't get it to
work. I finally ended up with 2 steps, the first step was an at command to
run the back-up to a different folder on the Vantage server and the second
step was an at command from the destination server which copied the file
from the vantage server to the destination server.



[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]



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I had considered that
Thanks for the help!

--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, sarah.vareschi@n... wrote:
> The batch file I run on the destination server to copy the backup
file from
> the Vantage server is as follows:
>
> net use z: \\nmepicor\backvant /u:[domain]\[userid] [password]
> copy z:\backup.1 E:\Users\VntgBack
> net use z: /delete
>
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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James,



I encountered a similar situation using the Scheduled Tasks feature
(W2K). I had contacted support and even though Epicor's documentation
indicates that mapped drive letters can be used to direct the backup
copy to another machine, they indicated that some clients have been
successful doing exactly what you did. My solution was to self reference
the server instead of using a mapped drive letter IE; \\servername\path
<file:///\\servername\path> , go figure



In Christ

Randy Vander Galien



-----Original Message-----
From: James Piper [mailto:admin@...]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 10:12 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Vantage Backup with AT Command



Okay I have my backvan.bat running and copying my file every night just
fine
Now I want to add a second operation to back vantage up to another
server (for redundancy)
Here is my batch file

echo Running Backup...
@echo off

net use x: \\server2\vntgbk (This is the share that I created on the
other server)

V:
cd \epic52\progress\bin
vntgbkup online V:\epic52\vantage\db\vantage x:\epic52.3
cd\backup

It won't run with the at command scheduling it at 2am
Any ideas why not?


J.P. Piper
Systems Administrator
MECO, Inc
2121 S. Main St
Paris, IL 61944
(217) 465-7575 ext 201
Fax (217) 465-5230
Email: <mailto:admin@...> admin@...




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