I already created a bunch of custom scripts years ago that do the backups I want, email reports, etc. It wasn't fun but a learning experience anyways... -- Allan Williams "Russ (www.SBITS.Biz)" <support@REMOVETHIS.sbits.biz> wrote in message news:O4M3U5Z3IHA.2060@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... Al Look at a product called BackupAssist it will help you customize backups (Since SBS
Allan, Well C: is backed-up every Friday night by SBS backup anyway so unless there is some other reason that I have not considered then I will leave C: out of the daily incremental. E: as you say is covered by the Exchange backup so no need for that either. Have now configured so D: and Exchange are the only things included in the dailyu incremental. Thx, Nick "Al Williams"
Hello Customer, Thank you for your post, also thanks for all the communities great suggestion. My name is Gary Wang, and it is my pleasure to work with you on this issue! Please allow me to confirm that my understandings are correct. As I understand it, the issue is: You want to get some suggestion about incremental backup planning. If I have misunderstood your concerns please feel
My problem with the full backup each night was the size of my data. Each backup was well over 150GB and I kept getting "Insufficient resource" memory errors from NTBACKUP when I tried to back things up to my external USB drives (which would fill up rather quickly as well). In the end to get it to work I had to break my backup into pieces and use NTBACKUP scripts. Easier to manage this way
I would leave off C: and E: (that's what I do) - C: is best imaged in my mind and E is already handled by the First Storage Group incrementals. Note that incrementals can be a pain to restore but I use them the same way you are proposing to save backup space. I've never needed them though - I rarely use my backups now-adays as shadow copies allow users to get at older files themselves without
