Postponing Scheduled Tasks

[Rockabee]

Hi all,

Just a quick question here, I have trawled the site and can't find the answer.

I have a server running windows server 2003 and in scheduled tasks I have several daily entries that run quite happily and have done for some time.

The company is shutting down for 2 weeks at christmas and after some routine maintenance I have decided I will shut the servers down as well, give them a rest, so to speak.

My question is: When I turn them back on and re-enable everything will the tasks try and "catch up" the days that they have not run or will I simply see "Missed" in the status column.

I have to be absolutely certain that they will not try and catch up as many of them interrogate our main database for reports to send and that is what I don't want.

Any help would be appreciated,

Regards

Rockabee

 

[GrimR]

They wont run, they wont try catch up. Why shutdown the servers? I think that's a bad idea.

 

[Rockabee]

Thanks GrimR for the reply.

I shutdown the servers because I don't like the idea of the system/network being unattended for 2 weeks.

Why do you think it is a bad idea?

I only have 3 servers and a small 75 pc network it's no big deal.

Regards,

Rockabee

 

[GrimR]

from my years of experience I find that when computers are shutdown for extended periods, nine times out of ten they start up with errors, or the HDD just gives up while it was not used. This has happened far too often to computers on my network. Coincidence maybe but it always seems to be the ones turned off for 2 to 3 weeks that it happens to.

 

[Rockabee]

Well I'll bear that in mind, it's never been a problem in the past but it gives me something to consider I suppose.

Thanks for the info.

Regards,

Rockabee