I have been using BackupAssist for my LTO3 Tape Drive, but that may be

overkill for you. BackupAssist is a wrapper around NTBackup, and makes it

real easy to set up the automation. But, for a simple task like yours I

would look at the Command Line Interface options available with NTBackup,

then use Windows Task Scheduler to automate the tasks. Luckily with 2000

Server setting up the Scheduler is far easier than using the old DOS CLI

interface with NT4 Server.

I am on the road at the time, so I do not have access to my documentation

re: the various options you can use with NTBackup and Task Scheduler. It is

easy to work with for something like what you are planning to do, and can be

used with a target hard drive or tape drive.

If you find the research and hacking more time consuming than you like, I

have found the BackupAssist app to be a tremendous value. They have add-on

modules that allow you to back up SQL Server and Exchange Server files

on-the-fly, and they support VSS if you are running it (2003 Server or XP

only, with a few other limitations/requirements). The cool thing, besides

the relatively low price, is they use NTBackup as the backup engine, and the

NTBackup Restore process in its native form for file recovery. This means

you do not need to have some proprietary software to get files from the

target device holding the backed up files. Very nice solution.

www.backupassist.com.

Gil

> -----Original Message-----

> From: profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com

> [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com]On Behalf Of Chris Davis

> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 11:16 AM

> To: profoxtech@leafe.com

> Subject: [NF] Automating NTBackup

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> Does anyone have any advice or tricks for automating NTBackup.

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> Scheduling is not so much a problem. But I would like to maybe have email

> notifications that is has been successful or unsuccessful. This is on a

> Windows 2000 Server.

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> Thanks.

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> Chris.

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