Re: NTBACKUP Command Line variables

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 05/26/04 

Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 09:57:12 -0700

Good afternoon,

Afraid not. That's an excellent description of the
command line switches and their functions, but, it
doesn't discuss specifics about what you can do with the
switches. For instance, it tells me that to set a label
on the backup set I need to use /d "text" but it doesn't
mention what variables I can put in "text" to cause the
systems name, time or date to become part of that label.

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