Comments on: Scheduled Backup to RDX / RD1000 with SBS 2008 and wbadmin

By: madods

madods — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 02:46:05 +0000

I just want to confirm I’m creating the .bks file correctly. The only item I have ticked when I select what to back up is ‘Microsoft Exchange Server > ServerName > Microsoft Information Store’. Will this include ALL Exchange data?

By: B Steingraber

B Steingraber — Tue, 25 May 2010 20:22:21 +0000

Hi,
i’m trying to implement this script but every time I try to run it, it fails with the following entry in the log:

***** Starting Data and System files backup
wbadmin 1.0 – Backup command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2004 Microsoft Corp.

ERROR – Access denied. You must be a member of the Administrators group or
Backup Operators group to use Windows Server Backup. In addition, you must
run WBADMIN from an elevated command prompt. (To open an elevated command
prompt, click Start, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run
as administrator.)
*******************
I am running it as Domain\Administrator

What am I doing wrong?

By: Ger Donohhue

Ger Donohhue — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:45:55 +0000

Carl

Task Scheduler has the option to add an simple email event after tasks have completed in 2008.

By: Carl Farrington

Carl Farrington — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:03:53 +0000

Hi James. I haven’t seen that script before, but a couple of observations:
I used %date% and %time% instead of grepping the output of date /t.
The Net stop/start Removable Storage & RSM refresh stuff is just for tape drives, and is necessary only because RSM is unreliable and needs refreshing god knows how many times else tape backups can fail.
Sleep doesn’t exist as a win32 command as far as I know. I would use ping -t 30 >NUL instead (for a 30sec pause). It has the same effect, except that we don’t need to sleep anyway, because we’re not trying to fix a broken RSM refresh on a tape drive.

So I can’t really see much to combine. Other than adding a blat line at the end for emailing, which is something that I do anyway, although it’s not in the example above.

By: JamesB

JamesB — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:25:07 +0000

So I like the idea of where you are going with this but let’s go ahead and combine your working script with the NTBackup script many of us used based on this:

http://weblogs.asp.net/doubinski/archive/2004/07/28/199518.aspx

Now as to running the NTBackup for Exchange how supported is this going to be if you need to do a recovery?

By: Carl Farrington

Carl Farrington — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:42:00 +0000

Hi Joan. Maybe you did a BIOS reset on the machine, so the SATA port is disabled in the BIOS.

By: joan

joan — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:25:46 +0000

Hi Carl:

Im a newbie to SSB 2008. Last week we had a disaster and restored everything back using our external drive back up. We uses Rd1000 for weekly off site back up. After the recovery, the rd1000 is not on the system anymore. I tried re-installing the rd1000 software, scan new hardware but still it wont recognize the rd 1000. Any tricks for the sbs 08 to recognize tthis hw?

thanks in advance,
joan

By: Carl Farrington

Carl Farrington — Wed, 27 May 2009 09:59:40 +0000

Hi Andrew. The NTBackup is just for Exchange. I think it doesn’t work for VSS, so you have to make sure you are only backing up the Exchange IS, not System State or any other files.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 27 May 2009 09:51:07 +0000

Ok, I have replaced the recommended NTBackup with the older version. Now Job is avaiable. However, it doesn’t work again. Now the problem is shadow copy:
——————————————————
Backup Status
Operation: Backup
Active backup destination: File
Media name: “BackupData.bkf created 27/05/2009 at 7:33 PM”

Timeout before function completed

Error returned while creating the volume shadow copy:ffffffff
Aborting Backup.

———————-

The operation did not successfully complete.

———————-

The option for Shadow copy is in gray (so I can not tick it)

I would be very appreciate for good advice.
Thanks

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 23 May 2009 02:27:39 +0000

Whell, the answer for the first part of previous message is YES. Task scheduler has no complains now. However, backup still not working properly. Event log gives an error 8017 “Command Line Problem: A valid backup operation was not specified on the command line.”
Here is information about NTBackup crach:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: ntbackup.exe
Application Version: 5.2.3790.3959
Application Timestamp: 45d693ec
Fault Module Name: StackHash_52d4
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6001.18000
Fault Module Timestamp: 4791adec
Exception Code: c0000374
Exception Offset: 00000000000a6e97
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.305.9
Locale ID: 3081
Additional Information 1: 52d4
Additional Information 2: b38d3df985bfb7662837be2eb472cc12
Additional Information 3: 5e8e
Additional Information 4: 9fd5a6e5bb46f376718099cb96955150

Cheers