Generic Exchange Backup Script (Backing up Exchange 2003 Part 2)

re: Generic Exchange Backup Script (Backing up Exchange 2003 Part 2)

Andy HJ — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:54:33 GMT

Nice script John!
Just gave it a quick go and it works very well.
Like the error checking - I had been running a similar script (but as a .bat file) but yours is better.
Ntbackup is very verstile from the command line although I have noticed that the catalog switch seems to missing from 2K3 standard edition.

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re: Generic Exchange Backup Script (Backing up Exchange 2003 Part 2)

jhoward — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 15:01:02 GMT

Hi Dugie - yes, have a look at the technet script center @ http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/vs/default.mspx
Cheers,
John

re: Generic Exchange Backup Script (Backing up Exchange 2003 Part 2)

Martin — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:00:42 GMT

Great script John.
Thanks.
Notification through email would be super.

re: Generic Exchange Backup Script (Backing up Exchange 2003 Part 2)

jhoward — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 21:02:41 GMT

Hi Martin - finally got round to it. Have a look at the revised script at http://blogs.technet.com/jhoward/archive/2005/11/04/413678.aspx
Cheers,
John.

Improved Generic Exchange Backup Script

John Howard — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:50:53 GMT

So after numerous emails about this, and some comments on my previous blog post back in June , I spent

re: Generic Exchange Backup Script (Backing up Exchange 2003 Part 2)

Raul — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:35:15 GMT

Hello,

I had been looking for a script to backup data (SQL databases) on my Windows server 2003.

I am totally new to this. Will be great if someone can give me a little push so that I know from where to start.

Thank you!!!

re: Generic Exchange Backup Script (Backing up Exchange 2003 Part 2)

jhoward — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:58:41 GMT

Raul - unfortunately, this really isn't my area of expertise. I would recommend you maybe ask on one of the SQL blogs such as http://blogs.msdn.com/psssql/

Alternatively, there's a few scripting and SQL forums/newsgroups around who will be able to provide far more help that I would be able to.

Thanks,

John.

re: Generic Exchange Backup Script (Backing up Exchange 2003 Part 2)

Joe — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:14:52 GMT

John, I can't seem to get the script to work. I don't quite understand the dependency. I created the bks file and linked in the top section of your script, however when I run the script it does nothing.

re: Generic Exchange Backup Script (Backing up Exchange 2003 Part 2)

jhoward — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:10:04 GMT

Joe - can you email me your version of the script (rename it to a .txt extension) and the output of cscript <scriptname>.vbs. Link is at the top. Hopefully something obvious. I'm actually on vacation right now, but will try to take a look. You might also want to try the "improved" version of the script rather than this one.

Thanks,

John.

re: Generic Exchange Backup Script (Backing up Exchange 2003 Part 2)

Clark — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:10:30 GMT

The link to the updated script is broken. :(

re: Generic Exchange Backup Script (Backing up Exchange 2003 Part 2)

Richard Taylor — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:14:04 GMT

I had to use Google's cache to find the new script

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:hAXzmKGWMycJ:https://blogs.technet.com/jhoward/archive/2005/11/04/improved-generic-exchange-backup-script.aspx+%22Weekly+Backup+Script+for+Exchange%22+howard&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=uk&client=firefox-a

re: Generic Exchange Backup Script (Backing up Exchange 2003 Part 2)

Paul — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:41:18 GMT

Hi John,

about 2 years ago I used your script to backup an exchange server 2003, and it worked great! Now I'm trying to accomplish the same thing again on an other exchange server, and I just can't get it to work. I've tried many things as using different paths, different backuplocations, etc. After every try I opended eventlog to have a look at the reports. And this is really interesting.

When I have my BACKUP_SHARE set to "F:\" and my BACKUP_SELECTION set to "F:\ExchangeBackup.bks" (with no space in between) it will tell me "NTBackup-Fehler: 'Die gespeicherte Auswahldatei ""@F:\\F:\ExchangeBackup.bks" wurde nicht gefunden.", which means that it couldn't find the bks-file at that path.

When I have my BACKUP_SHARE set to "F:\" and my BACKUP_SELECTION set to "F:\Exchange Backup.bks" (with a space in between) it will tell me "NTBackup-Fehler: 'Die gespeicherte Auswahldatei "Backup.bks" wurde nicht gefunden." which means that it just could find the bks-files, but it doesn't tell me where. Of course, here I also renamed the bks-files before I gave it try.

Now when I have my BACKUP_SHARE set to "F:\" and my BACKUP_SELECTION set to "Exchange Backup.bks" (no drive letter given) it won't tell me anything. Here I can only see an empty txt-file in ntbackup reports.

One thing is always the same. Every time I tried to backup the ntbackup window appeared shortly and was gone after a second again.

What am I doing wrong here? I'm using the script above, since the link to the "improved" one doesn't work.

Thanks and my best regards from Germany

Paul

re: Generic Exchange Backup Script (Backing up Exchange 2003 Part 2)

Paul Heidenreich — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:29:21 GMT

Hi John,

One thing is always the same. Every time I tried to backup the ntbackup window appeared shortly and was gone after a second again.

What am I doing wrong here? I'm using the script above, since the link to the "improved" one doesn't work.

Thanks and my best regards from Germany

Paul

re: Generic Exchange Backup Script (Backing up Exchange 2003 Part 2)

Paul — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:43:55 GMT

I've already tried to leave a comment twice here. Is it still working?

re: Generic Exchange Backup Script (Backing up Exchange 2003 Part 2)

Paul — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:09:01 GMT

I've tried to leave a comment severeal times. Somehow it doesn't seem to work anymore. I'm having problems with the script, and I would also like to download the "improved" version, but the link doesn't work anymore. All I get is a blank page.

@Richard Taylor: your link Google's cache didn't work.

re: Generic Exchange Backup Script (Backing up Exchange 2003 Part 2)

jhoward — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:06:59 GMT

Paul - apologies for the delay in replying. I don't tend to look at comments on older posts. I'm not sure what's going on though in your case. Is this including if you run it from a command line? That tends to give a few more clues.

The link does seem to be working - the formatting is dreadful, I admit, it needs a bit of revision since I change my blog template many months back. I'll go sort that out shortly.....

Thanks,

John.

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