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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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ntbackup crash corruption

I want to backup my domain using differential backup on ntbackup, question is what if my computer crashes in the middle of the backup, would that corrupt my previous one? Thanks.
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NTBackup will not recognise LTO Ultrium

Backup Exec seems to be crashing our server when it runs and I have not had a backup for 2 days so whilst I work on fixing this I would like to use NTBackup just to get something on tape. When I run it there is only the choice of backing up to file…
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Event 10016 When Running ntbackup as a user in the Backup Operators group

I created a Windows 2003 AD user and deployed the user to the local Backup Operators group via Restricted Group on Default Domain Policy. I then restarted a client to make sure that this user was added to the group, which it was. However, when I…
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ntbackup on live system

I have a few Windows 2003 servers of which I want to take a backup of before installing some anti-virus software. My question is, does ntbackup (the included backup software) operate on a live, running system? Will I run into errors where certain…
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What would cause this error nightly during NTBackup (SBS 2003)?

I am getting the following warning message on 510 different files (always the same ones) every night: WARNING: Portions of "[INSERT FILENAME HERE]" cannot be read. The backed up data is corrupt or incomplete. This file will not restore correctly.…
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NTBackup fails, claims hardware failure or permission issue, but all hardware replaced

We have a server running incremental backups four times a week, and full backups once a week. It has been reporting hardware errors, intermittently but more frequently as of late: Error: The device reported an error on a request to read data from…
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All Logs Required when Enabling Circular Logging? (Exchange 2010)

Currently looking at cleaning up a mess left by a now-gone tech for one of my clients. Initially we found that backups hadn't been running for some months. While they're running now, I just found out that Exchange backups haven't. Exchange has been…
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ntbackup asks for a free media LTO-1, but shouldn't

I'm facing this problem: on Windows 2003 server STD, I can't safely perform unattended data backup on tape (HP LTO-1 drive) because it asks for a free media tape after 90GB of data written. The hardware compression is enabled, so I expect to back-up…
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Does a full ntbackup include mssql mdf files?

I had a disk failure, and I'm trying to restore my MSSQL DB. I seem to be missing the MDF file associated with the DB ( Some other older MDFs are available). The only backup scheme is a full ntbackup dump monthly, and a daily incremental. Does…
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Server 2003 incremental backups using ntbackup are too large

I have a week day nightly incremental backup that compliments my once a week full backup but even when I know very few files have not been modified since the last incremental or full backup, a substantial amount is always backed up! It seems to be…
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Exchange 2003 NTBackup always fails

Running Exchange Server 2003, I run an online backup every 2 nights using NTBackup, the job succeeds and I can verify by check db properties in systems manager & logs in D:\Exchsrvr\mdbdata. I have a vm of that server with identical image but each…
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ntbackup fails to save to NAS under windows sbs 2003

I created a backup plan to backup to a NAS via UNC (\\192.168.x.y\backup\pdc) on our Windows 2003 SBS, which stops after 1 sec with this error: "The operation was not performed because the specified media cannot be found." I think this has something…
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How to access SQL files from a BKS file?

I have a BKS file that is around 20GB. How do I extract the MSSQL files from that? Thanks
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ntbackup only makes 2K size .bkf file, why?

I have a scheduled backup that backs up the shared files and system state. It is set to run as "normal" mode. However, when it runs it only makes a 2K size file when it should be like 60GB.What rookie mistake am I making?
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Using NTBackup to Backup Exchange 2003 Mail Stores

I have netbackup backing up my Exchange stores stores to tape, but would like to maybe make the restore process faster. I have plenty of room on the array attached to the mail server, so I was thinking I could use NTBackup to do weekly backups in…
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