Sheduled Backup with Win 2000 Server

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Another consideration:.

Limit Names to Eight Characters

You can limit names to eight (8) capital characters when passing them to a batch file. How you do it depends on whether you're using Windows 2000 or Windows Me.

1. Window 2000
When using Windows 2000 you can use the SET command to extract a substring from an environment variable.

Use the comman SET result=%original:~0,8% to set the variable result to 8 characters of the value of the variable Original, starting at the 0th (first) character, but without capitalizing the result.

Maxwell

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Yet another possibility:

According to Microsoft article Q216789 titled, "BUG: NTBackup Cannot Back Up Individual Files from a Batch File or by Using a Command Prompt"

When you run NTBackup from the command line or from a batch file, and you specify a single file to be backed up, (for example: ntbackup backup c:\xfer\test.txt /D "Test One" /l "c:\backup.log"), you will consistently get the following error condition:

You do not have permission to access portions of specified path\filename .

CAUSE:
By design, NTBackup can only back up directories when using a batch file or through a command prompt.

RESOLUTION:
To work around this problem, specify the directory in which the file you want to back up resides, for example:

ntbackup backup c:\xfer /d "Test Two" /l "c:\backup.log"

Source:

http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;Q216789

(Don't forget to REMOVE those pesky SPACES from the pasted URL)

Regards,

Maxwell

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A couple of (final) possibly helpful articles:

http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBI/tip4200/rh4208.htm

http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?ID=KB;EN-US;q300160

Maxwell