Guest Rafael Posted July 15, 2007 Posted July 15, 2007 I am going to use NTBackup to backup my XP machine to an external hard disk. I want this to run in an automated a fashion as possible and I want to automatically retain the last 5 backups. I may also want to run a batch file before or after the backup. Can anyone suggest how any or all of the above might be acheived please? Many thanks in advance for your help.
Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] Posted July 15, 2007 Posted July 15, 2007 Re: NTBackup Functionality Rafael <rafael_romano299@hotmail.com> wrote: > I am going to use NTBackup to backup my XP machine to an external hard > disk. I want this to run in an automated a fashion as possible and I > want to automatically retain the last 5 backups. > > I may also want to run a batch file before or after the backup. > > Can anyone suggest how any or all of the above might be acheived > please? > > Many thanks in advance for your help. Much depends on your batch file writing skills - but you might check out http://www.jsifaq.com/SF/Tips/Tip.aspx?id=2265 You might also look at http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/ - it's awesome. Not free, but worth it.
Guest Patrick Keenan Posted July 15, 2007 Posted July 15, 2007 Re: NTBackup Functionality "Rafael" <rafael_romano299@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1184512550.859054.301560@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com... >I am going to use NTBackup to backup my XP machine to an external hard > disk. I want this to run in an automated a fashion as possible and I > want to automatically retain the last 5 backups. > > I may also want to run a batch file before or after the backup. > > Can anyone suggest how any or all of the above might be acheived > please? > > Many thanks in advance for your help. I'm sure that you will get a number of detailed replies on how to do this, but two things: First - it'd help if define how much of the system you want to back up. Complete system state or just selected data? This matters because doing the complete system requires a floppy, which may or may not be present. You might consider a mix - an attended complete system backup followed by data backups. Second - by default, the Windows Task Scheduler requires passwords to run on local accounts. This is a security measure, and while it can be defeated, consider whether the reduction in security is worth simply creating a password. You can easily have Windows remember the passwords. HTH -pk
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