Posts Tagged ‘Backup’

Increase the number of saved logs in Microsoft Backup (NTBackup.exe)

One tiny complaint I do have with the software is the limited number of logs that are saved. By default it’s 10. If you are checking the backup every day, or even once a week, this is fine. You can see what happened each day. If you don’t check the backup logs that often or, as in my case, are not at the location, you could miss potential problems.

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Windows 2008 Backup – Chasing a solution

Until recently 0.0% of my customers had upgrade their servers to Windows 2008…The OS seems powerful overall but left me extremely disappointed in the System Backup…I haven’t spent enough time with the system to give a fully qualified review but I can say that I struggled just getting the system to do a backup of the C drive…I expect you’ll hear more from me about this system (hopefully about how wrong I was), for now I’ll just run through the problems we had. Hopefully it will help someone else in the future.

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