Windows XP Backup Utility...

[gyoung]

When running the Windows backup utility it asks for a username and password for it to run this under. It uses this information to allow a user on the local machine to be able to run a backup job.

For example, consider the following scenario.

The user is "DOMAIN\gyoung" and I've set this up as a user on the local machine and I have backup priviledges (set up as administrator). I am backing up to a network location say "\\machine\users\gyoung\backup\backup.bkf." I set up the job to use the following credentials username: "DOMAIN\gyoung" password: "techimo"

This is on a Windows XP machine backing up to a Windows 2003 server running Active directory.

If I change my password via exchange 2003 (to "techimo123") via Outlook's web client and then log off the machine, will my backup job run? The backup job has been told to run with the previous password of "techimo."

This is a proposal to backup our PCs in our department. And my question is that when the jobs are set up they will run, but when the passwords expire in 6 months the backup job will have to be reconfigured with the new password or it will not run. It will try to authenticate with the "techimo" password to the network path and will fail.

Am I correct? Or is XP smart enough to know that the password has changed and the backup job will run correctly?

I am in the process of trying to verify this by changing the password manually and having a scheduled job run, but I would appreciate any input.

Thanks!

[filipino]

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[navinveenu]

the password is reconfigured automatically

[Siliconjunkie]

No, you will have to change the password in scheduled tasks. Account information for services or scheduled tasks is NOT updated automatically.

The reason is that it gives you a method to stop a particular process from running by changing the password. Or, if someone setup something under your account without your knowldege.

My suggestion would be to setup a domian account just for backups, keep the password secure, set it to never expire, and use it to run the backups.

[roafamily]

i agree with silicon junkine...this happened to me a while back when i took over this site..i had to reenter the new password after it expired every so often..got old..so i create a backup account with a password that never expired. this has been working for me..

paul