Bug in Task

Hi all,
I have a job that run 3 task. The first one do a backup, the second one copy those backup files from one drive to another drive, the third one supposed to delete the backup from the first drive. What is happening is as soon as the second task start the third task also start for some reason, it does not wait for all the backup files to be moved, so i end up with one backup file being copied on the second drive (locking the backup file) but all the other backup get deleted except for the lock file. Has anyone encounter the same problem? is there a way i can set up the third task not to start until the second is completed?

axel_2005 wrote:

Hi all,
I have a job that run 3 task. The first one do a backup, the second one copy those backup files from one drive to another drive, the third one supposed to delete the backup from the first drive. What is happening is as soon as the second task start the third task also start for some reason, it does not wait for all the backup files to be moved, so i end up with one backup file being copied on the second drive (locking the backup file) but all the other backup get deleted except for the lock file. Has anyone encounter the same problem? is there a way i can set up the third task not to start until the second is completed?

Do you have any precedence constraints (i.e. blue, red or green lines) between your tasks?

-Jamie

|||the tasks are link by the green arrow|||That's weird. Have you messed with the precedence constraints? When you draw a green arrow between task, by default a 'upon success' precedence is created. Just to make sure, check the options of the precedence constrains by double clicking the green arrow between the 2nd a 3rd task.|||I found a work around. Apparently when the task copy files from one place to another, it somehow return a success even though it did not copy all the files (i would say as soon as it copy the first file) so I removed the maintenance clean up and added another step to delete the files in task 3, that way only when the first step is done it will go to the next step. Thanks for your help.