NT Backup Command Line

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?

Is there any reason why running NTBACKUP from the run line and going into
the "Advance mode"
section and selecting what you do and don't want backed up work?

I tried that initially. I backup to a network drive which in turn copies the
..bkf file to an external Hard drive which gets rotated out and taken offsite.
For some reason, the backup kept failing. I made a batch file using the
command line option and it works fine. Full BU on Sunday and differential
during the week.

If this a SBS server the Backup Wizard works Very Nicely BTW and you can
custom select folders?
NTBACKUP on Steroids you can purchase BACKUP ASSIST

If it's failing are you backing up to a Mapped drive that is not there?
or using \\server\path

The backup wizard running NTBACKUP from the run line should be doing this

Perhaps if you post the Backup Log we can see why it's not doing it.
Because if the wizard or NTBackup script created is not doing it.
the other is likely to fail also

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.

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

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.

[carls64]

This is an old post but I am interested in the copylog.cmd and the code for backup to tape please!

You can either use a NNTP News Reader (Example Outlook Express)
And set it up with:
NewsServer: msnews.microsoft.com
newsgroup: microsoft.public.windows.server.sbs
or By Clicking Below
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...ows.server.sbs

If you wish a "WEB" Based interface with NO Ad's you can go directly to this
forum with.
http://www.microsoft.com/communities...dows.server.sb
s&cat=en_US_e18fea59-512f-421e-b9f3-3e1f643123f2&lang=en&cr=US
It has the feature to notify you on a reply also.

To Search for issues in the past the best way is to Google them.