Re: NTBackup is Killing me.......

what if the mapped drive requires username and password to map?


"TheThaiTech" wrote:

> Yes, you can schedule it (the bat files) to run with Windows Scheduled Tasks.
>
> "spepi" wrote:
>
> > Im not the greatest for bat files...how would I go about doing this? Is this
> > something that I could schedule to run before the backup and when the backup
> > kicks off at 10:15, it will work?
> >
> > any help would be appreciated
> >
> > "Albatross Singh" wrote:
> >
> > > Greetings
> > >
> > > You loose the mappings when you log out of the server session. Hence the
> > > backup tool cannot see those connections. Keep your session locked to backup
> > > your networtk drives.
> > >
> > > I believe that NT backup does not allow UNC paths.
> > >
> > > Try this:
> > > Write a bat file to run backup, net use to connect a drive, run the backup,
> > > then disconnect the drive. Use the scheduler service to run the bat file.
> > >
> > > Hope this helps
> > > Albatross Singh
> > >
> > > "spepi" <spepi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > > news:939AA459-DF4B-48CC-AC9D-D04B5CD7E128@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I have posted about this problem before, but now I have updated
> > > > information and questions.
> > > > To start, I was seeing Event ID 8017, couldn't find the .bks file. This
> > > > only
> > > > happened when I logged out of the backup server. When I just lock the
> > > > server,
> > > > the backup work fine and when I do the backup manually, it works. I have
> > > > looked around Hi and Low, unable to find out my problem, until SP1.
> > > > Yesterday, I installed SP1 on my backup server, verified the backup was
> > > > scheduled, using the correct username and password (Domain admin account)
> > > > and
> > > > logged out. This morning, I came in, checked the event log and the backup
> > > > ran, but it did not back up any of the mapped drives I have. But it did
> > > > back
> > > > up the Exchange Server. Here is what my daily.bks file looks like. Keep in
> > > > mind that all of the drives are mapped, except the Exchange. It is backed
> > > > up
> > > > some other way, which was setup before I came to work here. I hope someone
> > > > can help me...this is driving me out of my mind... When I lock the server
> > > > or
> > > > manually run the job...it succeeds. Logging out....that's my issue....
> > > >
> > > > Daily.bks
> > > > P:\NewSite\Build\
> > > > S:\Dynamics\
> > > > T:\shared\
> > > > U:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Corporate\
> > > > U:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Development\
> > > > U:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Documents\
> > > > U:\Inetpub\wwwroot\eQReporting\
> > > > U:\Inetpub\wwwroot\eQReportingScripts\
> > > > U:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Images\
> > > > U:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Marketing\
> > > > U:\Inetpub\wwwroot\objects\
> > > > U:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Sales\
> > > > U:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Scripts\
> > > > U:\Inetpub\wwwroot\Support\
> > > > U:\Inetpub\wwwroot\SysAdmin\
> > > > U:\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL\BACKUP\
> > > > V:\Longitude\Backup\
> > > > W:\inetpub\Install\
> > > > W:\Web2005\ /Exclude
> > > > W:\Web2005\webroot\about\
> > > > W:\Web2005\webroot\agent\
> > > > W:\Web2005\webroot\agentless\
> > > > W:\Web2005\webroot\aspscript\
> > > > W:\Web2005\webroot\assets\
> > > > W:\Web2005\webroot\cgi-bin\
> > > > W:\Web2005\webroot\contact\
> > > > W:\Web2005\webroot\customers\
> > > > W:\Web2005\webroot\demo_eq\
> > > > W:\Web2005\webroot\downloads\
> > > > W:\Web2005\webroot\knowledge\
> > > > W:\Web2005\webroot\Library\
> > > > W:\Web2005\webroot\longitude\
> > > > W:\Web2005\webroot\news\
> > > > W:\Web2005\webroot\partners\
> > > > W:\Web2005\webroot\products\
> > > > W:\Web2005\webroot\support\
> > > > X:\vss\
> > > > Y:\KeyGen\
> > > > Z:\Company\
> > > > Z:\Employee\
> > > > JET EXCHANGE\Microsoft Information Store\Heroix\
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
.

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