{"id":99,"date":"2012-04-19T00:40:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T04:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.StuffIFiguredOut.com\/?p=99"},"modified":"2012-04-19T00:40:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T04:40:41","slug":"modifying-ntbackup-schedules-on-2008-server-when-ntbackup-wont-let-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"Modifying NTBackup schedules on 2008 Server when NTBackup won’t let you"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a problem with backing up just MS Exchange data on a MS 2008 Server.\u00a0 As discussed by others around the net, a fall-back solution is to copy the last version of NTBackup onto the server and use it.\u00a0 Unfortunately a common problem seems to be that after you Schedule the first backup task you can no longer edit the task schedule or job parameters like the destination.<\/p>\n

Here is a solution:<\/p>\n

The .job file that is created for the backup resides in the windowstasks directory and visible through the windows task scheduler<\/p>\n

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  1. Open Administrative Tools, Tasks<\/li>\n
  2. Select Task Scheduler Library<\/li>\n
  3. Highlight the backup job task.<\/li>\n
  4. Under the Actions column select Export, this will create an XML version of the task.<\/li>\n
  5. Edit the XML file, you can change the schedule and the backup parameters like backup file name and destination. Note that tags are case sensitive.<\/li>\n
  6. Save your changes<\/li>\n
  7. Delete the original task.<\/li>\n
  8. Under the Actions column select Import and then select your edited XML file.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    This also proved a quick way to setup a multi-day backup schedule.\u00a0 I just copied the first file which was for Monday night to six additional files.\u00a0 I renamed the files for the days of the week and modified the backup filename and scheduled day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I had a problem with backing up just MS Exchange data on a MS 2008 Server.\u00a0 As discussed by others around the net, a fall-back solution is to copy the last version of NTBackup onto the server and use it.\u00a0 Unfortunately a common problem seems to be that after you Schedule the first backup task […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[12,13],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-network-support","tag-exchange","tag-ntbackup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}