TI Home 2009: Scheduled backups stopped working
Windows XP Pro SP3
TI Home 2009, Build 9796
I created a scheduled backup task about 2 weeks ago to do partition backups of my 2 hard drives to an external USB-connected drive and all worked fine 'til a couple of days ago when they would no longer start, producing the following error in the log:
"Scheduler is unable to run the task"} with GUID A62E6DFB-4EE6-4155-B5A8-A7A5D9EB4F96} because of the error 1327 (Logon failure: user account restriction. Possible reasons are blank passwords not allowed, logon hour restrictions, or a policy restriction has been enforced." [copy/paste of the XML, so excuse the strange formatting].
At the same time, two apparently identical "Security" event log entries are made:
Logon Failure:
Reason: Unknown user name or bad password
User Name: Bert
Domain: ASUS-II
Logon Type: 4
Logon Process: Advapi
Authentication Package: Negotiate
Workstation Name: ASUS-II
There are two user IDs installed on the system, mine and my wife's, and neither has a password.
I've made no intentional changes to the system or to the scheduled backup entry, although Windows Updates, anti-virus updates (Avira AntiVir Premium) and Windows Defender updates have almost certainly been done in the period.
If I select the scheduled entry, I can run it manually. I also created a new scheduled entry, set to run in a few minutes, and it started and ran successfully.
I deleted the backup entry that was failing and created a new one, which is identical to the old one, scheduled to run at 7:30PM tonight. If it too fails to start tonight, I'll be back to whine some more.
Until then, any suggested explanation of what's going on here?
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mmm Bert it does sound odd. I have only had problems like that after using a registry cleaner - could that be it? Or it might just be a windows thing and I know of no way to know apart from looking in event logs which are usually useless anyway.
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