Comments on: How to Schedule Windows Server Backup

By: SusanL

SusanL — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 04:13:48 +0000

> Why would you want to create less frequent scheduled backups of an Exchange server?

You are kidding, right? Because countless people backup things *OTHER* than just Exchange Server.
Duh.

By: Anish Kumar

Anish Kumar — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 08:33:30 +0000

Hi Paul,

I am facing a issues during my regular schedule backup. Error : ‘there was a failure in creating a directory on the backup storage’.

Total Backup size 340 GB and remaining space on the Drive is 163 GB.

To start the next schedule backup is that we should have addition 340 GB of free space?

Please advice.

By: Nélio Abreu

Nélio Abreu — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 17:44:17 +0000

Hi Paul,
I have a question.
Is it possible to create incremental backups or changed files through command line and Schedule Task?
Lets say I do a full backup once, and remain backups will be incremental or changed files only, all this through command line and Schedule Tasks
How do I accomplish this in command line? Which parameters do I use for each backup?
Best Regards,
NA

By: Paul Cunningham

Paul Cunningham — Tue, 23 May 2017 00:47:39 +0000

In reply to DH. 1. The size of the files, not the size of the whole volume. 2. As far as I know, yes, but I don't have an example to look at. You'll soon find out if the volume fills up anyway.

By: DH

DH — Mon, 22 May 2017 08:40:41 +0000

Hello Paul. I’d raise a question in technet but I think an answer from an expert such as you is better.

1. The backup size of VSS full backup will be the size of that volume? Or the size of files inside that volume? E.g. D: total volume is 2TB. Database (.edb) and transaction logs files are 50GB. What will be the final backup size?

2. You said “Windows Server Backup will automatically remove old backups to make room for new ones”. Is that include backup to a shared network folder?

By: Paul Cunningham

Paul Cunningham — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 04:14:11 +0000

In reply to Sammeta Yugandhar. I wouldn't expect Windows Update to delete backups.

By: Sammeta Yugandhar

Sammeta Yugandhar — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 11:23:18 +0000

In reply to Paul Cunningham. i had attached 2 TB External USB Drive in which only 800 GB used till now remaining as empty space. i had small doubt after installing Microsoft or windows updates on server it may erase the back up copies?

By: Paul Cunningham

Paul Cunningham — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 11:15:05 +0000

In reply to Sammeta Yugandhar. Do you have enough capacity in your backup storage to hold that many backups? Windows Server Backup will automatically remove old backups to make room for new ones.

By: Sammeta Yugandhar

Sammeta Yugandhar — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 07:34:07 +0000

hi Everyone,

see i had scheduled 3 backup’s,in which one will happen daily at 2:00 AM and the remaining 2 happens on weekly i.e. 1 on Saturday 2:00 PM and other on Sunday 2:00 PM.i was facing a issue about recover, after completing 30 back ups it shows only last 5 copies of back .
Here is my requirement i need 30 to 60 days copies i.e around 40-80 copies i require.i would like to know the changes to be done where?

By: fish72

fish72 — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 23:21:04 +0000

I wrote a simple batch file that copies the daily backup once a week (Friday in my case), And added it to the task scheduler to run once a week. You can create a different backup (Daily/Weekly/Monthly) to suit your needs.
Example of my batch file :

rd f:weekly_friday

robocopy /e f:windowsimagebackup f:weekly_friday