Improved Generic Exchange Backup Script

re: Improved Generic Exchange Backup Script

Carlos Arras — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:35:09 GMT

I can't get it to run. I get the e-mail with the red and the flag and all that, but it doens't start any backups. I changed
Const BACKUP_SHARE = "F:\ExchangeBackups"
Const BACKUP_SELECTION = "F:\ExchangeBackups\Mailbox Stores Normal Backups.bks"

re: Improved Generic Exchange Backup Script

jhoward — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 23:26:22 GMT

Hi Carlos

Good that you're getting an email at least. You havve checked and double-check that f:\ExchangeBackups exists with permissions for you to write in that folder, and the "Mailbox Stores Normal Backups.bks" also exists in that folder?

Debugging steps:
- What's the contents of the email sent to you? Does it give any clues as to the failure?
- Immediately after the line rc=wscript.run..., add a new line "wscript.echo szCommandLine"
- Run backup.vbs from the command line (ie start/run/cmd then cscript backup.vbs. Copy the text into a .cmd file (eg test.cmd), run test.cmd and see if the backup utility even opens.

If you still don't get anywhere, post back the output from the script with the new line in place and I'll take a further look. Should be trivial to fix, I hope ;)

Cheers,
John.

re: Improved Generic Exchange Backup Script

dreas — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:59:45 GMT

Better late than never... in regards to Carlos problem (which I think he solved himself already):

I encountered the same problem and managed to get it working by changing the lines to...

Const BACKUP_SHARE = "F:\ExchangeBackups"
Const BACKUP_SELECTION = "Exchange Backups.bks"

...where Exchange Backups.bks is located at F:\ExchangeBackups\.

Btw, thanks for the script, John, looks like it's saving me a lot of time. :)

re: Improved Generic Exchange Backup Script

Stefan Nielsen — Tue, 30 May 2006 13:43:17 GMT

This really is a great script! Thank you very much...

re: Improved Generic Exchange Backup Script

Joe — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 18:28:22 GMT

Hey John... I can tell it's been some time since someone responded but thanks a million. I've been reading this script looking for the logic since I'm not a programmer but it doesn't matter. My networking job just got much easier using this script. Thanks once again...

re: Improved Generic Exchange Backup Script

Clark — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 06:24:15 GMT

John,

Great Script! Can it send an email to say that it completed ok and not just on error? Thanks!

re: Improved Generic Exchange Backup Script

cheap comptuers — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:22:59 GMT

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