Re: Question on Using NTBACKUP

Thanks. I had to use help to remember the format of some of the old commands
- it's been "a few" years since I last used it. I used to have a batch file
back in the DOS days that did almost exactly this using the xcopy command. My
new one looks pretty much the same, except that it uses ntbackup.

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

In news:02A431BF-5850-463C-ACFD-1BDA0F8DE907@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Glenn Morgan <GlennMorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
I'm sending my ntbackup file to a hard drive on another PC on my
network, similar to what you suggest with the external hard drive. I
do a full backup every once in a while, followed by weekly
differential backups running as a scheduled task. I would like to
keep multiple copies of the differential backup in case I need to
restore a file from after the full backup that for some reason isn't
on the latest differential backup. Unfortunately, ntbackup always
writes to the same file name. Is there a way to specify a different
file name for the backup each time it runs?

You can use a batch file to "wrap" the backup job...have it first rename the
older file in the destination drive, and then perform the job.

Google for samples; here are some links I found for starters -
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=GGLJ%2CGGLJ%3A2006-47%2CGGLJ%3Aen&q=ntbackup+%22batch+file%22+sample+%22backup+to+file%22



"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

In news:OM0hn6nWHHA.4872@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Henry Stock <henry.stock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
I have an issue and a question about using the ntbackup Automated
System Recovery Wizard.

The wizard asks you to write data to a recovery disk on Drive A:,
but I have so much software loaded on my system that the size of
the data that would need to be on the recovery disk exceeds the
size of any diskette.
Is there a way to place this system recovery information on a
bootable CD?
I am surprized that Microsoft hasn't created a system recovery CD or
DVD utitlity that would put everything necessary to recover a busted
system on that medium.

Get an external hard drive....you can change the path when prompted.
I don't think you can do this directly to a CD/DVD (unless you're
using DLA which I don't recommend in general anyway). Maybe you can
just burn a CD/DVD afterwards.

http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/howto-18.html

You will again be asked to provide a floppy - and you can't change
the path there. These will be small files and will fit just
fine...I'd recommend using it (get a USB-attached floppy if you have
none).




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