Backing Up Server Data from a station

[Mohammed AM Dwaikat]

Hi All
Actually I am a programmer, But I have to do some administration tasks on
win2k.
I have a win2k server, and win2k professional several stations connected to
it, I login to the server using admin, and we have to make Backup everyday
using the server itself that has the backup media fixed on it.

IS there anyway to make a backup for the server data from any station, I
gave backup permissions to a user, but
1- He can't see the media when he wants to run backup from his station.
2- the backup media is not sharable to be viewed from other stations.
3- the user have to make backup from the server itself, and it is opened
with the admin username and I don't want him to use the server with the
admin username.
4- I don't want to logout from admin user to allow him logging using his
username in order to make the backup.

CAN ANY ONE ADVICE PLEASE

MOHAMMED DWAIKAT
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE

 

[Andrew Mitchell]

Hi All
Actually I am a programmer, But I have to do some administration tasks on
win2k.
I have a win2k server, and win2k professional several stations connected to
it, I login to the server using admin, and we have to make Backup everyday
using the server itself that has the backup media fixed on it.

IS there anyway to make a backup for the server data from any station, I
gave backup permissions to a user, but
1- He can't see the media when he wants to run backup from his station.
2- the backup media is not sharable to be viewed from other stations.
3- the user have to make backup from the server itself, and it is opened
with the admin username and I don't want him to use the server with the
admin username.
4- I don't want to logout from admin user to allow him logging using his
username in order to make the backup.

You can't do this using the built in ntbackup utility as far as I am aware.
You would need to purchase a third part product such as BackupExec to get
this sort of functionality.


Regards
Andy.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

I think there's a better way entirely. You can schedule an NTBackup job
using task scheduler - that way there's no manual intervention involved. You
can either schedule the job from w/in NTBackup itself, or you can write a
batch file that references the saved .bks file for that job, and specify any
number of other variables/actions, such as ejecting tape upon completion of
job, etc - I do this all the time.

 

[Kristofer Gafvert]

Hello,

You can connect remotly. You can use Terminal Services for Administration in
Windows 2000 Server.

I however recommend that you schedule the backup. That will work best, and
there is no risk that you some day forget to back up the data.