Re: NTBACKUP Command Line variables

From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 05/26/04 

Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 21:05:31 -0400

See if http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;300439&
helps.

WolfAr wrote:
> Good afternoon,
>
> Once upon a time when I ran Exchange server 5.5/SP4 on
> WinNT 4.0/SP6a I ran scheduled backups using ntbackup and
> it's command line parameters. I was able, at that time,
> to place in the text fields of those command line
> switches vtring variable (don't know how else to describe
> them) that would replace themselves with things like the
> date and time of the backup and the server name. For
> instance, in the switch that allowed me to set the tape
> label I had something similar to "Online backup of
> <servername> from <time/date>" when the backup ran, the
> tape would labelled as "Online backup of EMSS04M** from
> 12:15AM 01/01/2001". Unfortunately (or not) we shifted to
> a centralized backup system utilizing Netbackup
> Datacenter to accomplish esential systems backups and I
> haven't looked at ntbackup for approximately 2 years.
>
> Now, however, I have a need to be able to use ntbackup to
> backup one of my servers. I am still running Exchange 5.5
> but now the OS is Window 2000 Advanced Server w/SP4. I've
> figured out what switches need to go where and do what,
> but, I've long since forgotten how to input date and time
> data into the label or the log of my backups. Does anyone
> out there know how to do this?
>
> TIA

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