Automatically opening the bks file with ntbackup.exe

[Iman74]

I playing around with the shortcut now for a user trying to do the following:
I want to have a copy of the ntbackup.exe shortcut to reference the user's bks file that has their selected files and folders to be backedup automatically. But yet to get it to work correctly, any tips?

[LiVeWiRe]

Iman74,

Let me make sure I understand what you want here...

You want to place a shortcut on the desktop so all the user needs to do is double-click it and the backup (a specific bks file) runs?

-LW

[Iman74]

That is correct: users here are not so bright and lazy as can be.

So god forbid they have to remember what to click on to backup their data, so I made the selections and saved the selections in a *.bks file.

So now I have them opening the backup program, and selecting the bks file, but they are agreeing this to be a temporary way of doing till I figure this out. I know there has got to be a way of doing it this way.

[LiVeWiRe]

Iman74,

You can put this into a batch file and put a shortcut to the batch file on the user's desktop. When they double-click the shortcut, the backup will run automatically...you can reference the .bks file within the batch file.

If you need some help with this let me know...

-LW

[Iman74]

Can you paste a copy of the code, and I will make the proper changes to the directory structures, etc.

[LiVeWiRe]

Originally posted by Iman74 Can you paste a copy of the code, and I will make the proper changes to the directory structures, etc.

Sure, no problem...

Open up Notepad and type the following (making proper changes for your directory structure, .bks file name, etc.):

ntbackup backup "@C:\backuptest.bks" /f "@C:\backup\backup.bkf"

For example this uses the 'backuptest.bks' job to do a file backup to C:\backup\backup.bkf

Once you're finished, save the file as 'backup.cmd' (or whatever you deem appropriate). You can place it really anywhere, but it may be easiest to place on the root of C: for easy access. Then just create a shortcut on the desktop to the .cmd file for the user.

Hope that works nicely for you...if you have any problems, post'em here and we'll work on them.

-LW