Right on. This is what I am expecting to have to do. Any chance you have the script lying around? Is it VBScript or Perl? What I am most interested in is your logic here. What services were shutdown first? What directories did you then backup? Etc... If you have a copy of the script (regardless of language) that would be great. I can then customize to my liking in Perl. Thanks for the reply. You are confirming my suspicions of how I will have to proceed here. Is there any Exchange related things one must do before shutting down the services? Perhaps first committing outstanding logs, etc? Thanks in advance.
Michael -----Original Message----- From: Don Morrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 3:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Michael Kahle' Subject: RE: [Unattended] OT: NT4 Tape Driver Michael, I had this same problem [NT4.0 + Exchange 5.5] and ended up writing a script that would shut-down the Exchange services every night (in the correct order), backup the Exchange store files, then restart the services (in the correct order). It was the only way I was able to workout solid backups without putting a tape drive in that box. Don > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Kahle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 12:47 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Unattended] OT: NT4 Tape Driver > > This is off topic to unattended, but I thought you guys might have > some ideas. I have a NT4.0 server that is running MS Exchange 5.5. I > have started backing up all the servers in my environment using Rsync. > This works great, but there is one more piece of the puzzle remaining. > I need to backup my Exchange 5.5 database using the msbackup.exe > utility. The only problem is that the msbackup.exe utility requires a > tape device to write to. > :( What I am hoping is that someone knows of a driver that I could > install on the NT4 server that would "look" like a tape device that is > configurable to write to the disk somewhere. > That way, I could use msbackup.exe to write to this "tape" > device and then Rsync could once a day grab this file off of the > server. > > I would love to hear of a solution for this. Thanks. > > Michael > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. > From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one > installation-authoring solution that does it all. > Learn more and evaluate today! > http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 > _______________________________________________ > unattended-info mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
