old skool - ntbackup!! :s

right...bit of an old skooler request here!

anyone familiar with using ntbackup on a windows nt4 server? at the mo im running a backup manually by just selecting the files to run.

i need to backup around 25 folders on the d drive (not the whole d)...

can anyone help with a batch file to do this (will also need to verify the data) nothing else fancy after that, maybe eject the tape when it completes would be nice but not essential!!

thanks in anticipation lol!

Im no expert on these kind of things but i think that we use software called Retrospect and that only backs up things that have changed or new folders and i would imagine that you can specify a specific area to back up.

drag and drop or copy and paste to your tape drive. nt4 is just the nt version of win95, so you can do the same things as you would on win95 (and hence 98/me/2000/xp).

i want to schedule it to run silently if possible using a batch file and winat if anyone can help with that?

it works fine manually but its a bit tedious...this is only a temp measure until the box is replaced!

oh now i get you.

in that case you're right you need to create a batch file that can be run by NTbackup.

here's some good instructions.

http://www.pc-consultant.com/Schedul...dows_NT_4.html

NT?

NUKE IT!

Hey don't moch most of the military still use Nt4 server

I thought our company was slow... we still have some windows 2000 servers.

NT4 is still the most stable and secure windows OS you can get.

Apart from all them Admin password recovery tools. Nothing like that for 2003.

ntbackup backup "d:\folder1" /j "Backup of folder1" /N "Backup Tape 1"
ntbackup backup "d:\folder2" /j "Backup of folder2" /A
ntbackup backup "d:\folder3" /j "Backup of folder3" /A
...

The /N in the first line renames the tape - you don't have to do this, but it saves you having to specify an existing media name.
The /A in the following lines appends your data to the tape - if you don't do this you'll overwrite the backups you've already done.

Alternatively you could shell out for Symantec Backup Exec - there's a wealth of useful advice and hints at www.backupexecfaq.com

cheers guys this is only a temp measute the box has got backup exec on it but when ever all the BE services are running it blue screens and or locks up... theres lots of data on it and we need to move this across to our SAN but this takes time and cant be done in one swoop for one reason or another!

if i want to verify the data as well how do i do that?? just a /v at the end??

/v:yes is what you need.
What version of Backup Exec is installed? It's unusual for it to bluescreen - though not totally unheard of with version 10.

its an old one - 8.6!

the batch file doesn't work either....

i get the error, "command line BACKUP ****** contains an invalid parameter" ive copied it word for word (except for the obvious different folder names!).

any ideas?