Re: Backing up Windows scheduled tasks in 2003 2008
You could always create a prescheduled job to export all tasks, those could be imported back if there is a problem down the road. Take a look at http://community.spiceworks.com/scripts/show/1474-export-and-import-all-scheduled-tasks-in-windows-server-2008-windows-7 -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Alex Paschal Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 4:55 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Backing up Windows scheduled tasks in 2003 2008 Hi, Steven. There are some drawbacks to backing up the *.job files from the c:\windows\tasks directory, especially with regard to passwords, but necessary, you should be able to back up those *.job files by using a prescheduled command to copy the *.job files from the c:\windows\tasks directory to some other directory that you can back up, say, q:\important\tasks. Your backup job can then pick them up from there. Alternatively, you might consider using a batch file containing schtasks commands to redefine your tasks whenever you need to. This way you can store your passwords in the task definition. On 10/23/2013 7:50 AM, Steven Langdale wrote: Hello all I have a requirement to backup scheduled tasks on a couple of windows servers. I though I may be able to get away with just C:\Windows\Tasks (and a list of the relevant passwords), but that dir is an OS exclude on 2008 (only one I've tried so far) Has anyone else needed to do this? If so, how did you go about it? My current test platform is 2008 + 6.4.0.11 client Thanks Steven
Backing up Windows scheduled tasks in 2003 2008
Hello all I have a requirement to backup scheduled tasks on a couple of windows servers. I though I may be able to get away with just C:\Windows\Tasks (and a list of the relevant passwords), but that dir is an OS exclude on 2008 (only one I've tried so far) Has anyone else needed to do this? If so, how did you go about it? My current test platform is 2008 + 6.4.0.11 client Thanks Steven
Re: Backing up Windows scheduled tasks in 2003 2008
If it's auto-excluded, does that imply it's in the system state? (No, I'm don't know how to exploit that.) On Wednesday, October 23, 2013, Steven Langdale wrote: Hello all I have a requirement to backup scheduled tasks on a couple of windows servers. I though I may be able to get away with just C:\Windows\Tasks (and a list of the relevant passwords), but that dir is an OS exclude on 2008 (only one I've tried so far) Has anyone else needed to do this? If so, how did you go about it? My current test platform is 2008 + 6.4.0.11 client Thanks Steven
Re: Backing up Windows scheduled tasks in 2003 2008
Hi, Steven. There are some drawbacks to backing up the *.job files from the c:\windows\tasks directory, especially with regard to passwords, but necessary, you should be able to back up those *.job files by using a prescheduled command to copy the *.job files from the c:\windows\tasks directory to some other directory that you can back up, say, q:\important\tasks. Your backup job can then pick them up from there. Alternatively, you might consider using a batch file containing schtasks commands to redefine your tasks whenever you need to. This way you can store your passwords in the task definition. On 10/23/2013 7:50 AM, Steven Langdale wrote: Hello all I have a requirement to backup scheduled tasks on a couple of windows servers. I though I may be able to get away with just C:\Windows\Tasks (and a list of the relevant passwords), but that dir is an OS exclude on 2008 (only one I've tried so far) Has anyone else needed to do this? If so, how did you go about it? My current test platform is 2008 + 6.4.0.11 client Thanks Steven
