NT Backup Help 1

[knut82]

I am asking this question because after hours trawling the internet I cannot seem to find a definitive answer please help:

I am trying to schedule backups using ntbackup.exe utility on windows server 2003.... My problem is that when I use the '/m normal' option the backup take in excess of 10 hours!!!

I am aware of the other options: /m copy, /m incremental, /m differential etc... But I also know that there is a '/m daily' option, which only takes 15 mins...

Can anybody tell me what the '/m daily' option actually backs up???

FYI: I am trying to backup to a NAS drive which has been mapped to drive B:, when I try to use the '/m Incremental' or '/m differential', ntbackup gets stuck at 'mounting the media', '/m normal' and '/m daily' work fine...

Any help greatly appreciated

Thanks in Advance

Dan

 

[Lemon13]

First do a full backup, then have a look

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc722506.aspx

M. Knorr

MCSE, MCTS, MCSA, CCNA

 

[knut82]

Lemon13 aka M.Knorr

Thank you for your post, it was very helpful!!! But this does lead me on to another question:

If I was to use the '/m daily' option, in terms of recovery, can I rebuild the system in the same way as I can if was using the '/m incremental' option?

(E.g. using a full backup plus daily backup's up to the day it failed).

FYI: I am performing the backups with system state option checked so I can rebuild the server from scratch if my server dies completely...

regards,

Dan