This was my point, there would be no way the computer would know it was
plugged into the UPS.

However, looking at device manager HID UPS Battery is listed, why I don't
know, I can assure you there is know way for it to know.

Perhaps I should disable it.

Looking at it's properties it says

Location: on American Power Conversion USB UPS.

This makes no sense to me, what does it mean?

It's a UK machine on UK power, no US conversion involved.

My device is an APC Smart UPS.

Andy



"Steve Thackery" wrote:

Backup won't work when the machine is on battery power, so that's why
Backup is affected.

Jill, the PC has no way of "knowing" it's plugged into a UPS, unless the UPS
data lead is connected and the driver software installed.

If not, all it sees is normal AC on the power leads.

Thack

APC = American Power Conversion.

mi

"Andy Webb" wrote in message
This was my point, there would be no way the computer would know it was
plugged into the UPS.

However, looking at device manager HID UPS Battery is listed, why I
don't
know, I can assure you there is know way for it to know.

Perhaps I should disable it.

Looking at it's properties it says

Location: on American Power Conversion USB UPS.

This makes no sense to me, what does it mean?

It's a UK machine on UK power, no US conversion involved.

My device is an APC Smart UPS.

Andy

I see, I didn't equate APC and American Power Conversion

Well I wonder how it knows, unless something about the power
line tells it.

Either way I can't see why a UPS should stop me using Vista backup.

Andy


"miss-information" wrote:

APC = American Power Conversion.

mi

"Andy Webb" wrote in message
This was my point, there would be no way the computer would know it was
plugged into the UPS.

However, looking at device manager HID UPS Battery is listed, why I
don't
know, I can assure you there is know way for it to know.

Perhaps I should disable it.

Looking at it's properties it says

Location: on American Power Conversion USB UPS.

This makes no sense to me, what does it mean?

It's a UK machine on UK power, no US conversion involved.

My device is an APC Smart UPS.

Andy

Today, =?Utf-8?B?QW5keSBXZWJi?= made these interesting comments
....

I can't seem to run windows vista backup. It keeps saying
it's due to an internal error, it then says it can't do a
backup while running on batteries but I'm not it's a desktop
machine on mains power!

Any suggestions as to the problem and solution.

I can't comment to Vista's new backup scheme but if it isn't
significantly better than XP's, I'd get a 3rd party solution.
First, one needs an imager for the C:\ partition, which Vista may
not have, then one needs to define exactly what needs to be backed
up, to what media(s), etc. e.g., full backup, incremental, simple
file copy, etc. Also, Windows settings, the Registry or whatever it
is now called, etc. your E-mail, IE7 favorites, etc. should be
separetely backed up to provide an easy restore process. Whether
native Vista can do all of these things and many more is an IF, so
I'd suggest you examine what it is you're trying to do along with
finding a solution to the technical problem you're having.

--
HP, aka Jerry

Well I can't believe it. I've just run Vista Backup and it worked no problems.

I've made no changes to the computer and I still have the UPS plugged in.

I just thought, give it another go and that was that.

Andy

Andy, I have a utility that I'd like you to run that will give us more info
about your power/battery situation. If you will contact me via email (remove
"online" from my address), I'll provide the utility.

--
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"Andy Webb" wrote in message
...
I see, I didn't equate APC and American Power Conversion

Well I wonder how it knows, unless something about the power
line tells it.

Either way I can't see why a UPS should stop me using Vista backup.

Andy


"miss-information" wrote:

APC = American Power Conversion.

mi

"Andy Webb" wrote in message
This was my point, there would be no way the computer would know it was
plugged into the UPS.

However, looking at device manager HID UPS Battery is listed, why I
don't
know, I can assure you there is know way for it to know.

Perhaps I should disable it.

Looking at it's properties it says

Location: on American Power Conversion USB UPS.

This makes no sense to me, what does it mean?

It's a UK machine on UK power, no US conversion involved.

My device is an APC Smart UPS.

Andy

Do you have a USB cable connected from the UPS to your PC?

mi

"Andy Webb" wrote in message
This was my point, there would be no way the computer would know it was
plugged into the UPS.

However, looking at device manager HID UPS Battery is listed, why I
don't
know, I can assure you there is know way for it to know.
My device is an APC Smart UPS.
snip...
Andy