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253299 - XADM: Windows 2000 Backup Does Not Dismount Databases During the Restore Process
When you use Microsoft Windows 2000 Backup to run a restoration procedure for a mounted Exchange 2000 Server database, you receive the following message: You are about to restore Microsoft Exchange components. The Microsoft Exchange services on the...
252500 - Ntbackup.exe May Cause 100 Percent Central Processing Unit Utilization
If you use Windows 2000 Backup (Ntbackup.exe) to schedule a backup on your Windows 2000-based computer running Exchange Server version 5.5, when the backup process starts, the backup tape is not overwritten, and you may receive the following error...
252264 - Windows 2000 Backup May Not Recognize Conner CTT8000-A Tape Drive
Windows 2000 Backup (Ntbackup.exe) may not recognize the Conner CTT8000-A (Qic157.sys) tape drive properly. Backup may also display two instances of the tape drive when there is only one (displaying both a Travan and a MiniQIC drive). When you try to...
249734 - Backup Software May Not Work Correctly with Remote Storage-Managed Volumes
Older (or "legacy") vendor-supplied backup programs may not be aware of Windows 2000 Remote Storage service (RSS) files that have been moved to offline storage. When these files are moved to secondary storage, a reparse point is created that contains...
249120 - How to Maintain Fully Populated Windows 2000 Backup Catalogs
Windows 2000 Backup keeps a tombstone catalog on the local disk for each backup tape. After you select a backup catalog on the Restore tab, Backup mounts the tape and then reads the on-media catalog(s) to populate the on-disk catalog file before it...
247060 - Dr. Watson Error Message in Ntbackup.exe When Starting to Read Tapes
When you start Backup (Ntbackup.exe), it attempts to read the tapes. If the format of a tape is not compatible with Ntbackup.exe, an access violation that generates a Dr. Watson error message may occur.
244805 - How to Restore Data from a Backup Set that Contains a Missing or Corrupted Tape
When trying to restore from a backup set you may encounter the following error message: This set cannot be cataloged because the media containing the set data is missing. Windows 2000 Backup (Ntbackup.exe) does not have a /missingtape command-line...
244408 - XADM: Year Displayed Incorrectly After Restoring Backup
If you perform a backup using the Windows NT Backup program (Ntbackup.exe) that is included with Exchange Server 4.0 on a computer running Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51, and then restore the backup, the backup date that is displayed in the...
243380 - XADM: How to Use the Windows 2000 Backup Utility to Perform an Online Backup
This article covers the steps necessary to use the Microsoft Windows 2000 Backup utility to perform an online backup of one or more Microsoft Exchange Server computers.
243260 - Changed Command Parameters for Scheduled Backup Job May Not Be Saved
When you edit a previously scheduled backup job in Windows 2000 Backup, the setting changes are not saved, and Backup does not use the additional settings that you made. If you open the scheduled backup job again, the settings that you made are no...
242881 - Advanced Settings Are Not Honored with Scheduled Backups
The Windows 2000 Backup (Ntbackup.exe) tool has several options that are either not honored when you schedule a backup to start at a later time or not available when you use command-line parameters or switches.
241705 - XADM: NTBackup Doesn't Work on Databases Whose Names Contain Only a Single Character
Databases with character names that are only one character long are not backed up by the NTBackup.exe utility.
241162 - How to Save Backup Report Logs to an Alternate Location
Windows 2000 Backup (Ntbackup.exe) does not have a command-line parameter to specify the location to which reports are saved after a backup operation is finished. The backup report is saved in the profiles folder of the user who performed the backup...
240392 - Err Msg: The Device Reported an Error on a Request to Write Data to Media
When you use Windows 2000 Backup (Ntbackup.exe) to back up data to a hard disk that cannot be write protected and you choose FILE for the back-up destination, you may receive the following error message: Drive Error: The device reported an error on a...
240087 - Restoring NTBackup Sets Generated by Faulty SP4 Tandqic.sys
When you use the the NTBackup program in conjunction with the Tandqic.sys driver provided in Windows NT 4 Service Pack 4 (SP4) to restore data from a tape backup on a Tandberg SLR5 tape drive, you may not be able to restore the data. You may not be...
239892 - How to Schedule Unattended Backups Using a Stand-Alone Tape Library
This Windows Backup (Ntbackup.exe) tool is designed to work with Removable Storage Manager (RSM) to manage media during a backup session. This is especially effective when you have a tape library that holds several tapes, because RSM can automatically...
237739 - XADM: Exchange On-line Restore Fails with Event ID 8010 on Cluster Server
An on-line restore of the Exchange Server computer on a Cluster Server may fail with the following Event ID error in the application log: Event ID: 8010 Source: NTBackup Type: Error Description: Microsoft Exchange services returned 'XXX' from a call...
237310 - HOW TO: Manually Edit Ntbackup.exe Selection Script Files
When you create a scheduled backup job in Windows 2000, a selection script (.bks) file is created with a list of folders and files that are to be backed up and that are to be excluded from the backup job. You can edit this list of files by clicking...
235469 - HOW TO: Restore the Remote Storage Database
This article describes how to restore the Remote Storage Service (RSS) database. This may be useful if: It is necessary to completely re-install Windows 2000. After you do so, you must restore the RSS database files before you can recall files from...
234492 - Backup Creates New Tape GUID When Writing New Label
If you share Windows 2000 Backup (NTbackup.exe) tapes between two or more computers, select the Replace the data on the media with this backup option during a backup operation, and enter a new media label name, Backup creates and writes a new Globally...
233427 - Files and Folders Not Backed Up Using the Ntbackup.exe Tool
This article lists the files and folders that the Ntbackup.exe tool does not include in the backup and restore process.
229656 - Optimizing Windows File Protection Service
To optimize the Windows File Protection service (WFP), you can increase the %SystemRoot%\System32\Dllcache folder to its maximum size to eliminate the need to have media inserted to replace files.
227696 - NTBackup Stops During Advanced Backup of Remote Storage Data on Single-Drive Tape Unit
When you attempt to back up a file managed by Remote Storage by using the NTBackup utility, NTBackup may stop responding. This happens when you enable Backup Data that is in Remote Storage from the Advanced Backup options in NTBackup, with a...
224006 - HOW TO: Manually Delete Reports from the Backup Tool
When you backup or restore data using the Backup tool, a report is created that displays the results of operation. You can view these reports by clicking Reports on the Tools menu in the Backup tool. The Backup tool keeps a copy of the last 10 reports...
216916 - NTBACKUP Writes Incorrect Year to Log File
When you set the Long Date Style or Short Date Style in the Regional Settings to use a four digit year, the Ntbackup.exe tool may substitute the year 1900 in the backup log file when the system date is set for the year 2000.
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