Thanks for the responses on how to schedule backups to an external hard drive.

When scheduling, it looks for a password. I have follwed the directions from the help menu (frankly I woould be quite happy to do this without any password).

I enter the password, as required by the help menu, apply it, and click ok, and save the job. Then I go to the "Schedule Job" window, make my selection and enter the password again. The same password I entered earlier. I get a response the "Password is not valid. Please try again"

So what am I doing wrong? There has got to be an easier way to do backups for my home desktop and laptop.

Thanks for any assistance.

Tony

The password is not for the backup itself, but to log on as administrator to your system. For whatever reason they have decided that to do the back up you should log with a password. What you should be able to do is create user with admin rights and assign it a password. Then have BUMP use that to do it's backup.