Re: Scripting Windows 2008 System State Backup

I agree 100%, this was something that worked perfectly in 2003 and they
shouldn't have touched it or they should have left what they had an added
features not take away. Doing the system state from command line and not
being able to schedule it is a joke. What part of that was a good idea??

And then to not even have any documentation or examples of how to script it.
All they say in their documentation is this can be scripted and scheduler
can run the script. Nice, thanks!


"Phillip Windell" wrote:

I believe there is a downloadable version of NTBackup that can run on 2008
that will read and work with backups from other versions of Server (2000,
2003, R2). It is supposed to look and function just like the NTBackup you
are used to. I assume this means it will also backup and work with 2008
since that is what they expect you to download it to and run it from.

That is really all I know about it. You'll have to dig for the rest of the
details yourself unless someone else knows more about it.

To me this is another example of where MS should have left well enough
alone. Vista is the same way, which is no suprise. They could have added
the "imaging" features without screwing the whole thing up like they did.
And then the imaging features are too inflexable anyway,...you can image the
system drive by itself,...but you can not image any other drive without
imaging the system drive too (you can't de-select it).
--
Phillip Windell
www.wandtv.com

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft,
or anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
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"Shaun EN" <ShaunEN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:0B6C475F-9A03-498E-A9FD-1EAFA1D897E9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
We are going to be deploying Windows Server 2008 for our file servers and
as
part of our load we do a system state backup with Windows Backup. On 2003
it
was quite easy you can schedule it and away you go. However on 2008 you
have
to run it command line now and you cannot schedule that unless you write a
script for it. I've been checking out Google and to my surprise there are
pretty much no references to anyone else that has scripted this and
scheduled
it.

Anyone got some references?



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