NTBACKUP .bks file

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I'm trying to make backups on the fly by creating my own .bks file. The
problem is that the .bks files appear to be some odd unicode file. I'm using
a custom VB 6 app to generate the .bks file. I can generate a unicode output
file, but NTBACKUP still doesn't want to accept it as a valid .bks file. Is
there some easy way to code it to output a file that NTBACKUP will accept as
a valid .bks file that doesn't involve hex editting?
 
Hop said:
I'm trying to make backups on the fly by creating my own .bks file. The
problem is that the .bks files appear to be some odd unicode file. I'm using
a custom VB 6 app to generate the .bks file. I can generate a unicode output
file, but NTBACKUP still doesn't want to accept it as a valid .bks file. Is
there some easy way to code it to output a file that NTBACKUP will accept as
a valid .bks file that doesn't involve hex editting?
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Under VB6 it should be fairly easy to convert the file to
unicode format. Just start it with $FF $FE, then make
every second byte $00. To see an example, use notepad.exe
to open an ASCII file, then save it in unicode format.
 
We found out it was easier to construct a valid file using VB .net instead of
VB 6, so that's what we did.
 
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