How do you make NTBACKUP back up open files?

[Guest BadBoy House]

We use ntbackup to back up our server each night. Normally this works

fine but since introducing a remote access solution for staff it seems

that if staff leave a server based program open on their workstations

the backup system doesn't back the files up.

 

This is beginning to get problematic as some important data is being

excluded from the backup.

 

Other than trying to make sure that staff close programs is there

anything else I can do to make sure that the data is backed up

successfully?

 

Is there a way of automatically closing programs at a certain time?

 

thanks in advance.

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: How do you make NTBACKUP back up open files?

 

 

"BadBoy House" <chrisnrach17@aol.com> wrote in message

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> We use ntbackup to back up our server each night. Normally this works

> fine but since introducing a remote access solution for staff it seems

> that if staff leave a server based program open on their workstations

> the backup system doesn't back the files up.

>

> This is beginning to get problematic as some important data is being

> excluded from the backup.

>

> Other than trying to make sure that staff close programs is there

> anything else I can do to make sure that the data is backed up

> successfully?

>

> Is there a way of automatically closing programs at a certain time?

>

> thanks in advance.

 

When creating the backup job through the wizard, you should click

the "Advanced" button and enable volume shadow copy.

[Guest BadBoy House]

Re: How do you make NTBACKUP back up open files?

 

actually there isn't a shadow copy option. we're running ntbackup for

windows 2k

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: How do you make NTBACKUP back up open files?

 

 

"BadBoy House" <chrisnrach17@aol.com> wrote in message

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> actually there isn't a shadow copy option. we're running ntbackup for

> windows 2k

>

 

Google is your friend. I typed this into a Google search window

 

"shadow copy" "windows 2000"

 

and got this link straight away:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/bb405951.aspx

[Guest clobber1968]

Re: How do you make NTBACKUP back up open files?

 

On Aug 18, 12:17 pm, "Pegasus \(MVP\)" <I....@fly.com.oz> wrote:

> "BadBoy House" <chrisnrac...@aol.com> wrote in message

>

> news:5ee758bf-9a58-4083-bdd3-a2866d3daf34@c65g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...

>

> > actually there isn't a shadow copy option.  we're running ntbackup for

> > windows 2k

>

> Google is your friend. I typed this into a Google search window

>

> "shadow copy" "windows 2000"

>

> and got this link straight away:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/bb405951.aspx

 

I don't think that will help him, as that is the shadow copy client.

The server still needs to be running Windows 2003 or better.

 

You might be able to use PSFILE to close the open file.

 

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897552.aspx

 

Is restarting the server before the backup starts an option? A server

restart can be automated as well.

 

Clinton Oberbeck

MCSE