Vista, Server 2008, Win7, and Server 2008 R2 all give you the capability to easily roll your own backup solution - with easy to use VSS utilities.
If you don't like the Vista et.al. solutions - roll your own. A few dozen lines of PowerShell or a hundred or so of VBScript and you can be on it... Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 4:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: NTBackup scripting >> Of course, in Vista, it's been replaced with something even worse. :-( Rather annoying... -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Ben Scott <mailvor...@gmail.com<mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Joseph L. Casale <jcas...@activenetwerx.com<mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com>> wrote: > I have no problems doing it, the issue specifically is as stated, > I am programmatically generating the cmd to backup it up from > the shell and was hoping to specify what to backup by not > using a bks file, like you can when backing up the root of a > drive, or a single file/dir. Yah, I think you're going to have to generate a BKS file, with the accompanying temp file dance. NTBACKUP is a crock. It's a crock that happens to work, once you figure out, but it's poorly documented and very idiosyncratic. Of course, in Vista, it's been replaced with something even worse. :-( -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
