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ntbackup is an extremely simple tape-based backup utility that shipped as part of Windows Server from Windows NT 3.5 until Windows Server 2003.

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Output/pipe ntbackup directly to GPG

Currently, we can perform and encrypt a Windows backup with ntbackup and GPG in 2 separate steps in a batch script, as below: ntbackup backup "@selection_file.bks" /f "backup_file.bak" gpg --recipient "recipient" --encrypt "backup_file.bak" --output…
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using windows shadow copy for folders, files

it seems only R2 versions of W2k3 and W2k8 support folder, file level VSS backup. In regular Windows server editions only volumes could be backed up. is there any links or doc to confirm this behavior? 2008R2 edition: launch "windows server…
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I failed to open my xp backup bkf file in Windows 7

I moved xp backup bkf file to windows 7, but could not open bkf file through NTBackup restore utility because I received an error message “the backup file contains unrecognized data and cannot be used”. How can I open bkf file in Windows 7 that were…
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NTBackup skips files inconsistently

I've got a server that runs a full ntbackup once a week. Every week, it will log about a dozen files with the following messages: WARNING: Portions of "\OBJECTS\SERVER\STORAGE\DOCS101\SomeFile.000" cannot be read. The backed up data is corrupt or…
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Does a NT backup of exchange backup take exchange offline?

I am in a situation where i have limited time to pull of an exchange backup and i wont make it if i wait till the closing off business. Does the NTbackup utility bring down exchange while backing up or can it be ran without bringing anything down?
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NTBackup Commands

I am pretty unfamiliar with doing NTbackup via command line but I have a user who had someone setup his computer to backup to a 1TB external drive. The backup command looks like this: C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntbackup.exe backup "@C:\Documents and…
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How to set the Backup Identification Label of a job in NT backup using the command line

I'm using NTBackup on a server 2003 R2 system, to backup to a file over the network, using a batch script. What I'm trying to do is to change the name of the backup set as displayed in NTBackup's 'Restore and Manage Media' tab (highlighted below),…
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How to Recover Mailbox from old NTBackup Exchange Backup File

I have a backup file that was created by NTBackup from which I need to recover a mailbox (preferably in PST format). Is it possible to extract this from this BKF backup file? We're running Exchange 2007 now. Thank you!
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When writing remote data to a tape is the local drive throughput a factor in backup speed?

I'm working on a project to speed up our daily backups. I've mapped out the nodes that the data passes through from start to finish as best I can looking for bottlenecks. I am not sure if I should count the local storage on the server performing the…
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NTBackup fails with 8003 and 8019 to restore to Recovery Storage Group

Taking over a Windows Small Business Server 2003 R2 (SBS2003) that has long been backed up using both Symantec Backup Exec and NTBackup. Now I am trying to be smart and test the restore. Of course this has been tested in the 2 years since…
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Is it possible with NT Backup (or MS Backup) to restore all of the latest files from a certain folder out of an incremental backup file?

I am using MS Backup on a Windows Server 2003 to backup our key folders at my work. The backup is set up as an incremental backup job where it only backs up any files that have changed since the last time the backup was run. Periodically I have to…
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Monitoring NTBackup / Windows Server Backup using Nagios passive checks

We're monitoring several (~40 so far) servers using Nagios 3, and after some massive headaches trying to check event logs and text logs and so on with active checks, I've got NSCA installed on our Nagios server. The next step is obviously to have…
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Is an NTBackup of a MySQL data directory reliable

This question was asked on the MySQL forums in 2004 with no answers. I'm installing MySQL 5.0.x on a Windows 2003 Server for use with Drupal. I began to configure the backup with mysqldump when it occurred to me that an ntbackup taken using shadow…
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Backup VSS Issues

I've got this server, and we've been having VSS issues for quite awhile. We've tried every form of re-registering the VSS drivers we can think of. NTbackup won't run a system state backup vssadmin list writers doesn't list anything. We're getting…
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Error when attempting to do a differential or incremental backup of Exchange using ntbackup

We're running Small Business Server 2003 here. I was reviewing our backup procedures lately and noticed in the ntbackup logs that the differential backups of Exchange were failing with the error: (SERVERNAME)\Microsoft Information Store\First…
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