does the software backup local drives fine?
are you closing down the background apps before starting the backup(especially
anti virus)?


"John Thomas" wrote:
>
>Backup Exec 98 is scheduled to backup several files on the network F: drive
>at 12:30am. Without fail, the backup stops on a file (different each time)
>in the middle of the backup process. The time elapsed continues to increment,
>as does the estimated time left. The backup never finishes. Sometimes,
>if I run it manually in the daytime, it will backup successfully. The backup
>should only take about 10 minutes.
>Help!

What version of the sofrware?

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>
> Backup Exec 98 is scheduled to backup several files on the network F:
drive
> at 12:30am. Without fail, the backup stops on a file (different each
time)
> in the middle of the backup process. The time elapsed continues to
increment,
> as does the estimated time left. The backup never finishes. Sometimes,
> if I run it manually in the daytime, it will backup successfully. The
backup
> should only take about 10 minutes.
> Help!