Re: NT Backup Command Line

Thank you. This should do the trick. Much appreciated.

Vinny

"Bill Sanderson" wrote:

Thanks - this file is descended from a server which did not have Exchange
installed, and I never learned that trick. (and, in fact, that file is
still on a server which does not have Exchange installed...)

Where I have Exchange, I'm also using SBS backup, and not anxious to change.

"SuperGumby [SBS MVP]" <not@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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BLAT is unnecessary. Just drop the properly formatted message into the
Exchange 'pickup' dir.

The file exclusions can be done in the BKS file used.

eg.
C:\
C:\RECYCLER\ /Exclude
C:\scripts\ /Exclude
C:\spoolerlogs\ /Exclude
C:\sysinternals\ /Exclude
C:\temp\ /Exclude
C:\WUTemp\ /Exclude
C:\WINDOWS\Temp\ /Exclude
C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\ /Exclude
SystemState

"Bill Sanderson" <bill_sanderson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You can't put the exclusions on the command line--you have to use a
created .bks file which you can create using the gui.

Here's a recent example I used--much of it taken from a Microsoft KB
article about how to use ntbackup:

I'm showing you a real-world example in daily use--don't worry about the
excess stuff if you find it confusing--focus on the ntbackup line itself.

This is backing up to an external USB connected drive G, rather than
tape--the ntbackup line would be somewhat different with switches for
tape--I can dig up the tape version if you would find it useful--I've got
it from the previous Windows 2000 server.

---
@echo off
for /f "Tokens=1-4 Delims=/ " %%i in ('date /t') do set
dt=%%i-%%j-%%k-%%l
for /f "Tokens=1" %%i in ('time /t') do set tm=-%%i
set tm=%tm::=-%
set dtt=%dt%%tm%
c:\windows\system32\ntbackup.exe backup systemstate "@C:\Documents and
Settings\Administrator.journal\Local Settings\Application
Data\Microsoft\Windows NT\NTBackup\data\daily.bks" /F
"G:\%computername%-%dtt%.bkf" /D "daily %dtt%" /V:yes /M normal /J "daily
%dtt%" /L:s /FU
call c:\tools\copylog.cmd
exit
---
copylog copies the log file to a folder on the desktop, and also uses
BLAT to mail it to a couple of folks:
---
del c:\tools\*.log
xcopy "c:\documents and settings\administrator.journal\local
settings\application data\microsoft\windows nt\ntbackup\data\*.log"
c:\tools

dir c:\tools\*.log /b /od >c:\tools\ordered.txt

echo %date% >c:\tools\copylogx.txt
echo %time% >>c:\tools\copylogx.txt

type c:\tools\copylog.txt >>c:\tools\copylogx.txt
rem c:\tools\uptime /s /a >>c:\tools\copylogx.txt

for /F "skip=9" %%1 IN (ordered.txt) do rename %%1 current.log

rem current.log is Unicode, so won't go in a text message.
type c:\tools\current.log >c:\tools\%dtt%.log
rem above converts current.log from unicode to ascii.

xcopy %dtt%.log "c:\documents and
settings\administrator.journal\desktop\backup logs\" <f.txt

c:\tools\blat.exe c:\tools\copylogx.txt -t [email addresses go here] -s
"%dtt% backup output" -attacht c:\tools\%dtt%.log

del ordered.txt
del copylogx.txt
---

This works--it's been running for some months now on a Windows Server
2003 machine. I'm sure some of it could be done more elegantly, but I
haven't tinkered with it in a long time. It was "translated" from
Windows 2000 to Windows Server 2003 a few months back when they got a new
server.

"vcapone" <vcapone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi, I am using the NT command line backup system temporarily. I wanted
to
know if there was any way of omitting files and/or directories from the
backup through the command line?

Thank You,

Vinny





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