Hi folks,

Our automatically scheduled backups do not show up in the backup report.
The manually initiated ones do. This makes it hard for us to see if any
files were skipped during the night's backup.

The scheduled backups were created using the Backup wizard. Our server is
SBS 2000.

Thanks in advance.

Plastic Man

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0000, "Plastic Man" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Hi folks,
>
>Our automatically scheduled backups do not show up in the backup report.
>The manually initiated ones do. This makes it hard for us to see if any
>files were skipped during the night's backup.
>
>The scheduled backups were created using the Backup wizard. Our server is
>SBS 2000.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Plastic Man
>
The backup logs are stored at ="C:\Documents and Settings\%user%\Local
Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows NT\NTBackup\data\

where %user% is the user context that you scheduled the backup under.


Jerold Schulman
Windows: General MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com

Backup isn't creating any log files.


"Jerold Schulman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0000, "Plastic Man"
<(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:

> The backup logs are stored at ="C:\Documents and Settings\%user%\Local
> Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows NT\NTBackup\data\
>
> where %user% is the user context that you scheduled the backup under.
>
>
> Jerold Schulman
> Windows: General MVP
> JSI, Inc.
> http://www.jsiinc.com

Sounds like your job isn't running, then.

Plastic Man wrote:
> Backup isn't creating any log files.
>
>
> "Jerold Schulman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0000, "Plastic Man"
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> The backup logs are stored at ="C:\Documents and
>> Settings\%user%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows
>> NT\NTBackup\data\
>>
>> where %user% is the user context that you scheduled the backup under.
>>
>>
>> Jerold Schulman
>> Windows: General MVP
>> JSI, Inc.
>> http://www.jsiinc.com

A 12 gb backup file in the morning says it is.

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
> Sounds like your job isn't running, then.

Hmm - I've emailed you directly with a batch file I use for NTBackup jobs;
you may find it useful and it may resolve this problem as well.


Plastic Man wrote:
> A 12 gb backup file in the morning says it is.
>
> "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
>> Sounds like your job isn't running, then.

Thanks, I will take a look.

Plastic Man

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hmm - I've emailed you directly with a batch file I use for NTBackup jobs;
> you may find it useful and it may resolve this problem as well.

"Plastic Man" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<uoqDn#(E-Mail Removed)>...
> Backup isn't creating any log files.
>
>
> "Jerold Schulman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0000, "Plastic Man"
> <(E-Mail Removed)>
> > wrote:
>
> > The backup logs are stored at ="C:\Documents and Settings\%user%\Local
> > Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows NT\NTBackup\data\
> >
> > where %user% is the user context that you scheduled the backup under.
> >
> >
> > Jerold Schulman
> > Windows: General MVP
> > JSI, Inc.
> > http://www.jsiinc.com

Take a look at the command line through Settings | Control Panel |
Scheduled Tasks | Properties, and in particular the /l command line
switch. Valid values for this switch are /l:f for a full (or detailed)
log, /l:s for a summary log and /l:n for no log. I'm not sure what the
default is if this switch is missing but you can always explicitly add
one just be sure.

Did you look in the location that Jerold suggested? Or did you just
open the Backup application? You cannot see the backup logs created by
a batch backup job under the GUI. Just wondering.

Cheers,

Cliff

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 17:07:17 -0000, "Plastic Man"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Backup isn't creating any log files.
>
>
>"Jerold Schulman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 15:08:54 -0000, "Plastic Man"
><(E-Mail Removed)>
>> wrote:
>
>> The backup logs are stored at ="C:\Documents and Settings\%user%\Local
>> Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows NT\NTBackup\data\
>>
>> where %user% is the user context that you scheduled the backup under.
>>
>>
>> Jerold Schulman
>> Windows: General MVP
>> JSI, Inc.
>> http://www.jsiinc.com
>

I did look. There were no new backup logs.

We used to be able to see the night's backup logs. We erased those
scheduled jobs and made some new ones about a month ago. Since then,
they've not been creating any logs.

Plastic Man

"Enkidu" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> Did you look in the location that Jerold suggested? Or did you just
> open the Backup application? You cannot see the backup logs created by
> a batch backup job under the GUI. Just wondering.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Cliff
>