It doesn't make sense to create a special user/group for this as outlined here.Checked that Administrative Tools/Services/Task Scheduler uses 'Local System' as its Log On As account.Ensured that Administrator has the right permissions to cmd.exe per Technet.Added 'Batch' permissions to cmd.exe per one of the MS Technet recommendations.checktape, differential, FullBackup.bks, etc.) <- Apparently we did not try every iteration. Tried every iteration of ' and ' with the parameters (e.g.However, we think we've looked into all permissions and security-related issues and can't figure out why it's still not running. I've used this successfully in the past to run totally automated and bombproof backups, but we're rebuilding our backup server and have run into some snags when trying to create and run the scheduled tasks.Īt this point we believe it's a permissions issue that is preventing the scheduled tasks from running. We are using the wonderful NTBackupScript on a Windows 2003 server to automate our backups with the built-in NTBackup.

Schedule server 2003 backup batch file