Weird behaviour of dscmdexport.exe command

mavrick21 · Post by **mavrick21** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 7:02 pm

Hello all,

I've written a script which takes a .dsx export, every Friday, by running dscmdexport.exe command on Windows client. I've created this script to handle multiple project names as input. However for past few runs I observed that it exports all the projects but errors out with one or atleast one project. Error below:

Attaching to 'Project' ...
dscmdexport aborted:
Failed to attach to the project

dscmdexport.exe is able to export projects prior to abend. Any suggestions on how to trace this?

Thanks for your time.

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 7:27 pm

Is it consistent on the project(s) it errors on or does it seem somewhat random?

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Wed Dec 02, 2009 8:00 pm

There's not much to trace in "unable to attach to project".

Check that the project name is correctly spelled and cased. Check that the project still actually exists. Check that the authentication details are all correct.

mavrick21 · Post by **mavrick21** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 12:48 am

Craig,
It seems somewhat random.

Ray,
1) The project name is correctly spelled and cased.
2) The project exists.
3) The authentication details are correct.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 2:05 am

Try putting a short pause - maybe 30 seconds - between the finish of one export and the start of the next.

mavrick21 · Post by **mavrick21** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 3:08 am

Ray,
I already have 2 seconds delay between consecutive exports. Guess that's too short. I'll increase it to 30 seconds and update you.
Thanks.