Windows bakup/WBAdmin in Windows 7 Pro
The company I work for is getting ready to start using Windows 7 on a larger scale, however the one sticking point we have right now is a backup solution. We are currently testing the Windows 7 backup and Symantec Backup Exec. I have been using the Windows 7 backup solution but have a couple issue that I wanted to see if I could get help with. If I setup the backup through the GUI it works fine. I can specify the individual file/folders I want to backup and back them up to a networks share. The issue I have with this however is the network credentials. For the first 90 days the backup works fine but once the user's password expires they have to re-enter their credentials, which as far as I can tell entails resetting up the backup. I have not found an option to just tell it to use the new credentials. Also when the credentials expire there is not message indicating that the backup has expired. Or I should say none that the end user would notice. It tells you in Event Viewer and if you open Windows Backup, but we would like our backups setup to run with as little user intervention as possible. We did think about not using the user's credentials to run the backup and insteading using an account that does not expire, however our backup server has quotas on the user's folders based on their AD account. So if we use a generic account we lose those quotas. I then though I could just write a simple batch script using WBAdmin, however if I try to specify specific files and folders it tells me "A partial backup of volumes is not supported on this version of Windows.". What version of Windows do I need to run partial backups?
January 11th, 2011 11:01am

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