Re: Backup to a NAS

But SBS Backup wizard does write to hard drives. Internal or External USB,
Firewire, or ESATA.

One strategy is to use the Wiz to make a backup to free space on an internal
drive, then use NTBackup to move the resultant file to tape for portability.

--
Larry

Please post the resolution to
your issue so that all can benefit.


"Cliff" <cgaliher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Apr 24, 4:14 pm, Rick <R...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
-- Greetings,

I purchased a Snap Server 210 NAS as a means to backup my network on a new
Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 installation. However, I am
unsuccessful at configuring the backup using the wizard. Specifically, SBS
will not allow me to backup to my SHARE folder or a mapped drive.

Can anyone provide detailed instructions on how to configure this?

Thank you,

Richard

The SBS backup wizard is really just a wrapper that creates scheduled
tasks for NTBackup. And it doesn't support disk-based backups as I
recall, just because that wasn't popular when SBS2003 was still being
planned. SBS 2008 is supposed to be much better, but alas, we aren't
there yet.

What I recommend to my clients is BackupAssist
(www.backupassist.com.) It is basically a pretty GUI that wraps
around NTBackup (just like the SBS backup wizard) and passes it the
appropriate flags to get the job done. NTBackup is actually an
amazingly powerful backup program, and backupassist, like SBS's
wizard, just pretties it up for the dance. So for the price, you get
some rock solid features, a product that still reports properly in SBS
reporting (because it's still NTBackup at the core), and adds the
features 'missing' from SBS 2003's own wizard. Hope that helps.

-Cliff


-Cliff


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