Re: SPBackup utility failing

It was my understanding that SPSBackup was for the portal and SPBackup was
for the team sites. My problem is with SPBackup. In fact, Mike, I used one
of your own posts from 5/5/05, in the thread "Backup and Restore Problem," in
my decision to post this question here.

"Mike Walsh" wrote:

> SP Backup is for backing up SharePoint Portal Server 2003 sites only.
>
> As such it is not covered in this newsgroup which is for standalone WSS
> issues and issues common to all WSS implementations.
>
> Please post it to the SPS newsgroup at
>
> microsoft.public.sharepoint.portalserver
>
> Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
> WSS FAQ at http://wss.collutions.com
> Please reply to the newsgroup
>
> "Joe" <Joe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:C95DA35D-F972-4913-9FD7-2B49B184D6F9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > I've been using SPSBackup.exe to backup my portal server, and SPBackup.exe
> > to
> > create the SPBakOut.bat file to backup my personal and team sites.
> >
> > About a week ago, SPBackup stopped working. Now, no matter what command
> > line parameters I use, it generates an empty .BAT file. Prior to this,
> > everything had been working fine. I have SPS2003 and WSS on the same
> > server,
> > together with my SQL 2000 instance.
> >
> > If I use the last successfully-generated SPBakOut.bat file I have, the
> > backup works fine.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
>
>
>
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