On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 15:19:30 -0500, "Joe" <abc@xyz.org> wrote:

>I'm running Windows XP Pro. I know it comes with a backup program, but I
>don't think it will do what I want.

It sure does

Create a working backup job script (a .bks file) in NTbackup which
saves the files you want in a backup file on the remote machine.  This
is a simple as selecting backup options and choosing "Save As" from
the "Job" pull down.  Now type "ntbackup /?" from the command line to
learn how to run ntbackup from the command line.

At this point you should be able to schedule it in the control panel.
I like to make a batch file or put the command in a script so it does
other stuff also.

Your batch file would have a line that looks something like this for a
normal full backup:

ntbackup backup "@D:\Scripts\Full.bks" /F "Z:\Backups\Backup.bkf"
/V:yes /L:s /M Normal

or this for an incremental:

ntbackup backup "@D:\Scripts\Incr.bks" /F "Z:\Backups\Backup.bkf" /A
/V:yes /L:f /M Incremental

Which both presuppose you have a network share already mounted as
drive Z:


It might be safest & simplest to run the Full backup manually and have
the incrementals or differentials run on the schedule.  It would make
things more complicated if you wanted to periodically change the
backup file automatically on a schedule.

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