Scheduled NTBACKUP asks to overwrite file

[Ole Weigelt]

Hello everybody,

I have the problem that a scheduled NTBACKUP-Job which should backup to a
file on a harddisk sometimes comes up with the question:

'Media is not empty! Overwrite?' (It's the German version of Win2k, so I
don't know how it would look in the English version)

The task is set up to replace files in Backup.

Does anybody have an idea?

Thanks for reading

Ole Weigelt

 

[Pegasus]

Hello everybody,

I have the problem that a scheduled NTBACKUP-Job which should backup to a
file on a harddisk sometimes comes up with the question:

'Media is not empty! Overwrite?' (It's the German version of Win2k, so I
don't know how it would look in the English version)

The task is set up to replace files in Backup.

Does anybody have an idea?

Thanks for reading

Ole Weigelt

Post your whole ntbackup.exe command line here.

 

[Ole Weigelt]

Post your whole ntbackup.exe command line here.c:\winnt\system32\ntbackup.exe backup "@c:\Dokumente und
Einstellungen\Administrator\Lokale
Einstellungen\Anwendungsdaten\Microsoft\Windows
NT\NTBackup\data\Freitag.bks" /n "Medium1" /d "Satz1" /v:yes /r:no /hcff
/m normal /j "Freitag" /l:s /f "Q:\Backup\Backup\Freitag.bkf"


Thanks again

Ole

 

[Pegasus]

c:\winnt\system32\ntbackup.exe backup "@c:\Dokumente und
Einstellungen\Administrator\Lokale
Einstellungen\Anwendungsdaten\Microsoft\Windows
NT\NTBackup\data\Freitag.bks" /n "Medium1" /d "Satz1" /v:yes /r:no /hcff
/m normal /j "Freitag" /l:s /f "Q:\Backup\Backup\Freitag.bkf"


Thanks again

Ole

My backup command is almost identical to yours, and it works just fine. You
may have to run a few experiments, e.g. backing up to a different drive. You
could also walk around the problem instead of trying to solve it: Delete the
..bkf file before you start the backup.

C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntbackup.exe backup
@\\%ComputerName%\Logs\BackupSelections\backup.bks /n "%date% %time%" /d
"%date% %time%" /v:no /r:no /rs:no /hcff /m normal /j "DiskBack" /l:s /f
"\\Wood\LockBackup\%dow%\Lock.bkf"

 

[Ole Weigelt]

My backup command is almost identical to yours, and it works just fine. You
may have to run a few experiments, e.g. backing up to a different drive. You
could also walk around the problem instead of trying to solve it: Delete the
.bkf file before you start the backup.

Best idea one can have!

This solution delivers the same result and works perfectly.

Thanks!!