Gibson335 Posted January 23, 2009 Report Posted January 23, 2009 Does anyone know of a decent free server restart tool that will work with 2003? I use a scheduled batch file at the moment, but unless I'm missing something really basic, I can't schedule to do it only on week days. I've had a look at something called Reboot Buddy, but it's shareware rather than freeware. I just want to be able to schedule a restart Mon-Fri. Help!!
Dafty Posted January 23, 2009 Report Posted January 23, 2009 Why would you want to restart a server tis often?
Hightower Posted January 23, 2009 Report Posted January 23, 2009 I'm sure you can go into advanced settings of scheduled tasks and choose which days you want it to run? Select weekly (I think) and then it asks you to choose which days - just select the weekdays.
Diello Posted January 23, 2009 Report Posted January 23, 2009 The built in Windows Task Scheduler can be set to run only on weekdays.
Gibson335 Posted January 23, 2009 Author Report Posted January 23, 2009 Why would you want to restart a server tis often? Having massive problems with backups at the moment. It's taking an age to go through the million-and-one things that might be causing the problem, from BE, to drivers, from the SCSI card to the device itself, and in the meantime the only way we get consistent daily backups is to restart prior to the job. It's only temporary while we sort out the backup problem, but it's necessary for a couple of weeks perahps.
Dafty Posted January 23, 2009 Report Posted January 23, 2009 The built in Windows Task Scheduler can be set to run only on weekdays. We use the task scheduler to run scripts during the week day, works fine!
localzuk Posted January 23, 2009 Report Posted January 23, 2009 How about a vbs script which checks the day of the week and reboots if Mon-Fri? VBScript Functions VBScript - Restart computer
Gibson335 Posted January 23, 2009 Author Report Posted January 23, 2009 I'm sure you can go into advanced settings of scheduled tasks and choose which days you want it to run? Select weekly (I think) and then it asks you to choose which days - just select the weekdays. I genuinely thought I'd tried that and had not been given those choices, but tried it just now and it did. Cheers. I was sure it had to be in there somewhere, and thought I'd checked every option...somehow I missed it.
Hightower Posted January 23, 2009 Report Posted January 23, 2009 I genuinely thought I'd tried that and had not been given those choices, but tried it just now and it did. Cheers. I was sure it had to be in there somewhere, and thought I'd checked every option...somehow I missed it. I always select daily and think "Where's the day select?!" before realising you need to select Weekly for these options. Good to know you got sorted How about a vbs script which checks the day of the week and reboots if Mon-Fri? VBScript Functions VBScript - Restart computer Seems a bit overkill to carry out a simple job that can be done with features that already exist as part of the O/S. 1
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