Can't backup opened exclusive files over WLAN
Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 6:37 pm
Good morning. First: I LOVE AIS Backup! I have been successfully using the program for full, bare-metal restores of my system drive for quite some time, now. It was an answer to my prayers! I'd found NO other backup program (and I tried everything I could find) that was able to completely restore my OS including all registry and system files, despite all their (false) claims that they could do just that.
I'm purposely leaving out the step-by-step, miniscule boring details from this question so as not to influence your answer into any particular direction:
I'm running Windows XP Pro SP2 (fully updated) on my desktop, connected by ethernet cable to my router. I've got a laptop running Windows 2000 Pro, SP4, fully updated, with a wireless 802.11g connection to the router. I've got the latest AIS Backup release as well. The desktop has both CD and DVD writers, the laptop a CD ROM only, so I can't backup the laptop on it's own; I need to provide the backup files to my desktop's optical drives to burn them to disc.
I have tried every combination of shared drives (both the magnetic and the optical drives) and shared folders that I can think of (i.e., desktop shared with laptop, laptop shared with desktop). I downloaded the File Access Manager add-on and I've installed and run it on both systems. AIS Backup recognizes that it is running ("FAM enabled" in the status bar).
I can not get the program to backup the laptop's opened exclusive files. I always get the message that "16 opened exclusive files could not be backed up" and the backup is not "safe" to use.
I have also tried to set the program to create CD-sized "packages" to burn using third party software, such as Nero. It continues to create the entire backup set without stopping to allow burning the backup files before continuing. This is quite perplexing, since I know that is specifically a feature of the program, but I can't figure out why I can't get it to work.
If I could get the third-party option to work, I'd be able to avoid the first problem by creating the entire backup on the laptop and sharing the backup files over the WLAN and burning them that way. (However, I'd still be interested in a solution to the first problem, just to know why I wasn't able to do it myself.)
So, there are two issues: backing up the exclusive files over a WLAN, and allowing a third party program to burn backup discs before the program continues.
Can you help me? I've tried solving these issues for days. Thanks loads.
I'm purposely leaving out the step-by-step, miniscule boring details from this question so as not to influence your answer into any particular direction:
I'm running Windows XP Pro SP2 (fully updated) on my desktop, connected by ethernet cable to my router. I've got a laptop running Windows 2000 Pro, SP4, fully updated, with a wireless 802.11g connection to the router. I've got the latest AIS Backup release as well. The desktop has both CD and DVD writers, the laptop a CD ROM only, so I can't backup the laptop on it's own; I need to provide the backup files to my desktop's optical drives to burn them to disc.
I have tried every combination of shared drives (both the magnetic and the optical drives) and shared folders that I can think of (i.e., desktop shared with laptop, laptop shared with desktop). I downloaded the File Access Manager add-on and I've installed and run it on both systems. AIS Backup recognizes that it is running ("FAM enabled" in the status bar).
I can not get the program to backup the laptop's opened exclusive files. I always get the message that "16 opened exclusive files could not be backed up" and the backup is not "safe" to use.
I have also tried to set the program to create CD-sized "packages" to burn using third party software, such as Nero. It continues to create the entire backup set without stopping to allow burning the backup files before continuing. This is quite perplexing, since I know that is specifically a feature of the program, but I can't figure out why I can't get it to work.
If I could get the third-party option to work, I'd be able to avoid the first problem by creating the entire backup on the laptop and sharing the backup files over the WLAN and burning them that way. (However, I'd still be interested in a solution to the first problem, just to know why I wasn't able to do it myself.)
So, there are two issues: backing up the exclusive files over a WLAN, and allowing a third party program to burn backup discs before the program continues.
Can you help me? I've tried solving these issues for days. Thanks loads.