All,
Firstly I would like to thank all the people who have helped me while I am taking over management of this facility. The advice and direction given have proven to be useful.
Currently we have 4 servers which require backup to tapes. DC, Email, File Server and ERP server. We do not have third party software for backups, so, I am limited to using Windows Backup. On all servers, I collect the systems’ state, information stores/data base. This is really all we need to recover quickly from a disaster … Provided we don’t need new servers. While going through the existing backup solutions I found NTBACKUP script files. I can figure out most of the code short of …
for /f “Tokens=1-4 Delims=/ ” %%i in (‘date /t’) do set dt=%%i-%%j-%%k-%%l
for /f “Tokens=1” %%i in (‘time /t’) do set tm=-%%i
set tm=%tm::=-%
set dtt=%dt%%tm%
… Forgive me if I seem stupid. I simply don’t have a whole lot of experience with batch file scripting. From what I can tell … It appears to be some kind of nested ‘For’ statement that is putting the time and date into variables for use with ntbackup.exe ???!!! . I just can’t seem to “read” it. I have seen it (or something similar) on Technet and a few other sites but no one explains it. In addition, I have pulled some white papers on batch file scripting but it’s just not lighting the bulb in my head.
Here is the full backup script for you guys …
net stop ntmssvc
sleep 60
net start ntmssvc
sleep 60
rsm.exe refresh /lf”ARCHIVE Python 04106-XXX SCSI Sequential Device”
sleep 60
for /f “Tokens=1-4 Delims=/ ” %%i in (‘date /t’) do set dt=%%i-%%j-%%k-%%l
for /f “Tokens=1” %%i in (‘time /t’) do set tm=-%%i
set tm=%tm::=-%
set dtt=%dt%%tm%
C:\WINNT\system32\ntbackup.exe backup systemstate “@c:\FileBackup.bks” /n “Craftech File-Server Backup %dtt%” /d “Craftech File-Server Backup %dtt%” /v:no /r:no /rs:no /hc:on /m normal /j “%dtt%” /l:s /p “4mm DDS” /UM
rsm.exe eject /PF”Craftech File-Server Backup %dtt% – 1″ /astart
… Any help, name calling, caps statements or anything else is truly appreciated.
Benjamin
