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by jlvazquez825

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guys, I'm using ntbackup in 2003 server, but I would like to get email notification with the backup log after backup has finished... could someone give me a pointer how could I achieve this?

thanks in advance

-JV
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by Member 25348569

There are dozens around. I use BLAT from Sourceforge.net. Just create a batch file to run ntbackup and then run Blat from within the batch file to mail the log as an attachment once the backup is completed.

Command-line switches in ntbackup will let you specify the log file.

Neil :)

by jlvazquez825

I'm using sendmail.. is very easy to use but I found that it won't understand * wildcards as in the case of ntbackup logs it will keep the latatest 10 logs so I'm feeding the backup*.log filename to sendmail but it always gives me an error, but when I give it the actual name like backup08.log it works just find.. does anyone has an alternative to this?.. also how could I append the date to the log filename on ntbackup?

thanks
-JV
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