Well, it's pretty easy to write a small powershell wrapper to send email, and if you were using powershell already, I'd recommend it.
But blat is easy to use, proven, and simple to integrate into the type of process you want. Wbadmin doesn't allow for pre- or post-backup tasks, at least as far as I know. So.... Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Richard Stovall [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 2:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Hyper-v backup question I had considered something like that. I guess I was hoping for some way to do it all natively. Thanks On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Put wbadmin into a script/batch file and schedule that script batch file. Use blat to email the log file to you. Regards, Michael B. Smith Consultant and Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Richard Stovall [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 2:03 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hyper-v backup question I do pro bono work for a small, non-profit K-8 school. They wish to finally install their first server for the next school year, and I've set them up with a Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 host (the free OS) with guest machines doing the actual work. I've got everything working just fine, but I would like to know if there is a convenient and free way to monitor the nightly backups. I've created a backup schedule using wbadmin to write out to a second disk, but since I'm not on site every day it would be ideal to have a copy of the backup report emailed at the completion of each day's job. I know I can grab the contents of the log from C:\Windows\Logs\WindowsServerBackup in a separate scheduled task, but it would be great to have it all tied up neatly in a single process. Anyone have any methods for accomplishing this? Thanks, RS ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
