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BACKUP scheduling under WIN2K

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by jolly roger

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Does anyone know where I can find definitive info about making BACKUP work with Scheduling and media management. I can run a backup interactively, but I can't get a scheduled backup to work. It complains about the tape label, in most cases.

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by jolly roger

The BACKUP report shows the following "error" messages: 'The operation was not performed because no unused media was available" and '...because the specified media cannot be found'. I have named the media MONDAY, TUESDAY, etc. and created corresponding jobs called MONDAY.job, etc.

by felipe

Just run ntbackup (win2000) at the run line or under programs>accesories>system tools>backup. Create "one" backup job, select your folders, exclude any files you don't want to backup, if any. Then select the media (where you want to back it to). Nowclick on "start backup" The next window will ask you to append data or replace data. It is on this screen you can select "schedule". Click on this. You can select daily, weekly, etc. You will have to save the job a couple of times. But only create one job. Change the backup media daily and label the media Monday, Tuesday, etc. Else backup to another computer on the network for example, and every time a scheduled backup is performed, a catalog for that day will be created allowing you to choose the day you need to restore. Good luck!

by felipe

Be sure to select the destination media correctly (the drive you want to backup to) and that the drive is functioning correctly. Else ntbackup will not find your destination media.

by jolly roger

This response assumes NTBACKUP under WIN2K behaves the same as WINNT. A new element in WIN2K is RSM (Removable Storage Manager) and the problem was in the interplay between RSM and NTBACKUP.

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