Trench, I've got a notice, that you currently can' t use COB at all, is that true? If so, could you tell us more, what's going on with your client?
My original problem (failure to connect) was fixed after a few days - and I was able to manually backup. However, scheduled backups stopped working and never started working again, even after I uninstalled and re-installed.
I have removed COB from my system.