Network backup solutions??

Posted: 09-28-2006, 06:04 PM
In XP I used NTBackup to provide daily, weekly and monthly backups of my
network's various drives data. Vista doesn't seem to support the backup of
network drives (or if it does, I don't see how to make it work).

In Beta2 Genie-soft's Genie Backup Manager 7.0 worked fine, however it
crashes everytime in RC1 and in my newly installed 5728 build.

Does anyone have a solution, 3rd party offering or work around? Anyone have
an idea why the functionality of NTBackup was nerfed in Vista? I can
understand providing a simple interface for local system backup, but why take
away the ability to backup what you want/when you want?
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David Sanders
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Re: Network backup solutions??
Posted: 09-28-2006, 11:48 PM
Works fine to backup files to network on my copy of vista.

"lkuderick" <lkuderick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> In XP I used NTBackup to provide daily, weekly and monthly backups of my
> network's various drives data. Vista doesn't seem to support the backup of
> network drives (or if it does, I don't see how to make it work).
>
> In Beta2 Genie-soft's Genie Backup Manager 7.0 worked fine, however it
> crashes everytime in RC1 and in my newly installed 5728 build.
>
> Does anyone have a solution, 3rd party offering or work around? Anyone
> have
> an idea why the functionality of NTBackup was nerfed in Vista? I can
> understand providing a simple interface for local system backup, but why
> take
> away the ability to backup what you want/when you want?
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lkuderick
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Re: Network backup solutions??
Posted: 09-29-2006, 06:21 PM
David,

I've spent about a hour reading the help files and I don't see any method
that allows me to backup my network drives using Vista's Backup program. I
would REALLY appreciate it if you could provide a bit of information on how
you are able to accomplish this.

I get options to backup my local drive only, none of the network drives show
and I don't see any options to pick your own files. When presented with a
list of drives to backup, only my local drives show. On the next screen you
are only presented with a wash list of: Pictures, Music, Video, etc. No
option to pick folders or particular files.

The help file doesn't mention network files/drives at all. So how are you
accomplishing this?

If you can help, I would really appreciate it. Thanks!

"David Sanders" wrote:
> Works fine to backup files to network on my copy of vista.
>
> "lkuderick" <lkuderick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7F56BA02-0D4A-4788-86CE-574C23DCE94D@microsoft.com...
> > In XP I used NTBackup to provide daily, weekly and monthly backups of my
> > network's various drives data. Vista doesn't seem to support the backup of
> > network drives (or if it does, I don't see how to make it work).
> >
> > In Beta2 Genie-soft's Genie Backup Manager 7.0 worked fine, however it
> > crashes everytime in RC1 and in my newly installed 5728 build.
> >
> > Does anyone have a solution, 3rd party offering or work around? Anyone
> > have
> > an idea why the functionality of NTBackup was nerfed in Vista? I can
> > understand providing a simple interface for local system backup, but why
> > take
> > away the ability to backup what you want/when you want?
>
>
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lkuderick
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Re: Network backup solutions??
Posted: 09-29-2006, 06:23 PM
Forget the post above. I just re-read your response. I don't want to backup
files TO a network. I want to backup files that are on a network to my local
hard drive.

"David Sanders" wrote:
> Works fine to backup files to network on my copy of vista.
>
> "lkuderick" <lkuderick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7F56BA02-0D4A-4788-86CE-574C23DCE94D@microsoft.com...
> > In XP I used NTBackup to provide daily, weekly and monthly backups of my
> > network's various drives data. Vista doesn't seem to support the backup of
> > network drives (or if it does, I don't see how to make it work).
> >
> > In Beta2 Genie-soft's Genie Backup Manager 7.0 worked fine, however it
> > crashes everytime in RC1 and in my newly installed 5728 build.
> >
> > Does anyone have a solution, 3rd party offering or work around? Anyone
> > have
> > an idea why the functionality of NTBackup was nerfed in Vista? I can
> > understand providing a simple interface for local system backup, but why
> > take
> > away the ability to backup what you want/when you want?
>
>
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