OFF TOPIC Windows Backup

[Justin Bennett]

Thats the problem, the backup pool stuff, if the machine were to die and 
I had to releod it, could I restore from the tape without having the 
tape info stored on the machine? I have no experience backing up windows 
boxes, and thus have no faith that I would be able to get the files back 
in the event of a failure, so I'm going to share the windows drive mount 
it on my Backup server via samba, and just take a tar onto a tape of the 
files I need to backup. Then I feel comfortable in the even of a failure 
I could reinstall Windows 2003, and get the data back.

Thanks for all the help!

Justin

Justin Bennett
Network Administrator
Dynabrade, Inc.
8989 Sheridan Dr.
Clarence, NY 14031
 



On 3/7/2005 8:27 AM, Carl Yost Jr wrote:

>Not sure if anyone hit on this with Windows backup but you need to go into the retore media manage tab and mark the media as free to use. A lot of the automated features are stripped out of MS's backup software that you would normally see. When I put in new media I also always seem to have to do a quick small backup so NTBackup will add the media to the media pool and so I can mark it free daily. I had an arcticle on how to automate more of NTBackup if I can find it again I will send it off to you. I have a windows 2003 server box I have to do this on daily. 
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Justin Bennett" <Justin.Bennett at dynabrade.com>
>To: nflug at nflug.org
>Subject: OFF TOPIC Windows Backup
>Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 09:39:19 -0500
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>>Sorry for the post but I need a little help, I know absolutely 
>>nothing about backing up a windows box. What I have is a stand 
>>alone Windows 2003 Server box I need to backup nightly. I has a 
>>Vs160 tape drive, I'm trying to use this windows backup utility to 
>>schedule a nightly backup and it doesn't look like it fired last 
>>night. It had a brand new tape in it, I think it might have to do 
>>with that.
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>>I don't have to use this, I'm just looking for something robust, 
>>that I can back the server up and restore it to another machine if 
>>it dies. Something kinda like tar. I can put it in another box and 
>>extract files, no cataloging, media sets, or other crap. Free is 
>>always good too.
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>>Thanks,
>>Justin
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>>-- Justin Bennett
>>Network Administrator
>>Dynabrade, Inc.
>>8989 Sheridan Dr.
>>Clarence, NY 14031
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