[Spacecowboy2005]

Hi,

I would like to automate our daily backup proceedure, so that all that is requried is the previous tape to be removed and the next tape inserted.

We are using NTbackup and have a .bks file that is loaded in each day which has the selected local and mapped netowrk drives loaded. I simply run this each day with the relevent tape and overwrite the exisiting media.

I've been attempting to automate this system using schedualed tasks. However when using this method the only locations that are backed up are the drives stored on the Local machine. Any of the drives stored on other servers are skipped.

Why does the backup run in full when started manually but not when run via scheduled tasks??

[JohnWill]

Well, I'd be looking at a better backup application first, NTbackup is very limited!

Have you ever had to use the generated backup file? You may be disappointed if you do.

[Spacecowboy2005]

Never had a problem with NTBackup before; does
Looking into some other forum posts, Its become clear that the reason that only the local drives are backed up is because NTBackup has access to these.
The mapped drives are run during a logon script and not fixed. Therefore NTBackup couldn't access the folders. Simple really!!

I've now incoporated the Backup scripts in to a batchfile that runs the drive mapping scripts first.

[JohnWill]

Like I said, have you restored from the backups?

[Spacecowboy2005]

Using the previous method manually, I've had to restore a few files - never had any problems!
Care to explain why you've got such a negative view?!

[JohnWill]

I've had two different customers that used it, and thought it was great until they had to restore files. Both could not restore the files they needed, so I began to think that it's not the most reliable backup on the planet.

Another issue is it's very limited with it's options. If it works for you, that's all that really counts, right?