ntbackup

[favit]

Hi everyone,

I am running windows 2000 server and I am having a little problem. Evertime I set a backup job for ntbackup it does not run. I have deleted the job and reacreated it and it does not start at the specified time that I set it to. It does not start at all. Can someone please help me.



Please help I'm a newbie at his!

 

[markdmac]

Take a look at your scheduled tasks properties and post the command string here for us to look at.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

 

[favit]

Where do I find the schedule task properties. How do I get there?

Please help I'm a newbie at his!

 

[Xaqte]

Take a look here for more information on scheduled tasks.

 

[favit]

This is the only string I see in the Properties of the scheduled backup job. The sting reads as fallows:

C:\WINNT\system32\NTBACKUP.EXE backup "@C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows NT\NTBackup\data\EXCHANGE.bks" /a /d "Set created 7/19/2005 at 10:50 PM" /v:yes /r:no /rs:no /hcff /m normal /j "EXCHANGE" /l:f /f "S:\IT TOOLS\exchangebackup\INFOSTORE"



Please help I'm a newbie at his!

 

[markdmac]

Try replacing your command with the following

C:\WINNT\system32\NTBACKUP.EXE backup "@C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows NT\NTBackup\data\EXCHANGE.bks" /a /v:yes /r:no /rs:no /hc:off /m normal /j "EXCHANGE" /l:s /f "\\[red]SERVERUNCPATH[/red][blue]\IT TOOLS\exchangebackup\INFOSTORE"[/blue]

Note that you need to replace the red text with the servers UNC path. I would suggest replacing not only the red text but the blue as well with a full UNC Path to a share created for this.

I believe the problems you are having is that the S: drive is not available when the schedule runs. Using a UNC path should rectify that.

Note too that I changed the log from Full to Summary. A full log file can be HUGE, I've had them be over 15MB.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark