General
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 Load Selections on the Job menu in the Backup tool
(Ntbackup.exe). You can make any appropriate changes, and then click Save
Selections on the Job menu to save them.
Ntbackup.exe saves the .bks file with the list of files to be backed up under
your profile in the following directory:
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x:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Local Settings\Application Data\
Microsoft\Windows NT\NTbackup\Data
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You can edit a BKS file using notepad. The following lists the syntax of used
in a BKS file:
NOTE: Save file as TYPE: UNICODE
x:\ This entire drive will be backed up.
x:\directory\ Files in this folder will be backed up.
x:\directory\ /exclude Files in this folder will be excluded.
x:\file_name.ext This file will be backed up.
X:\file_name.ext /exclude This file will be excluded.
SystemState The System State will be backed up.
\\server\share\directory\ These network files will be backed up.
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Simple Job to backup SystemState:
ntbackup backup systemstate /M normal /J "backup job 1" /F "c:\backup.bkf"
View Backup Log File
@echo off
setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
set file=N
set folder=\\YOUR_SERVER_NAME\c$\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Windows NT\NTBackup\data
for /f "Tokens=*" %%a in ('dir "%folder%\backup*.log" /b /O-D') do if "!file!" EQU "N" set file=%%a
start "!file!" "%SystemRoot%\notepad.exe" "%folder%\!file!"
endlocal
exit /b 0
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