I have been using BackupAssist for my LTO3 Tape Drive, but that may be overkill for you. BackupAssist is a wrapper around NTBackup, and makes it real easy to set up the automation. But, for a simple task like yours I would look at the Command Line Interface options available with NTBackup, then use Windows Task Scheduler to automate the tasks. Luckily with 2000 Server setting up the Scheduler is far easier than using the old DOS CLI interface with NT4 Server.
I am on the road at the time, so I do not have access to my documentation re: the various options you can use with NTBackup and Task Scheduler. It is easy to work with for something like what you are planning to do, and can be used with a target hard drive or tape drive. If you find the research and hacking more time consuming than you like, I have found the BackupAssist app to be a tremendous value. They have add-on modules that allow you to back up SQL Server and Exchange Server files on-the-fly, and they support VSS if you are running it (2003 Server or XP only, with a few other limitations/requirements). The cool thing, besides the relatively low price, is they use NTBackup as the backup engine, and the NTBackup Restore process in its native form for file recovery. This means you do not need to have some proprietary software to get files from the target device holding the backed up files. Very nice solution. www.backupassist.com. Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Davis > Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 11:16 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [NF] Automating NTBackup > > > Does anyone have any advice or tricks for automating NTBackup. > > > > Scheduling is not so much a problem. But I would like to maybe have email > notifications that is has been successful or unsuccessful. This is on a > Windows 2000 Server. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Chris. > > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
