[Veritas-bu] Is a date-specific backup possible?

[MCare Backup]

Many thanks,  it seems like Douglas's solution should work just fine.  I was
actually hoping that NBU might have a date-range policy built into it, just
so I wouldn't have to find some way to program Windows to give me a file
list -- the DIR command is not quite as forgiving as I'd like...  I'm
actually finding, though, that custom scripting is the best way to get what
you need out of this piece of software.

Thanks,
Skip

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Douglas Ritschel" <dritschel62 at yahoo.com>
To: "Block, John - IST contractor" <John.Block at mkcorp.com>; "MCare Backup"
<mcarebackup at hotmail.com>; <veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 4:58 PM
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Is a date-specific backup possible?


> The find command in unix could generate a list of
> files that were modified after a certain date/time. I
> don't know if Windows had a similar command.
>
> Once you have the list of files to be backed up, in a
> file (for example a file called c:\listfile, you could
> use the following command:
>
> bpbackup -p "POLICY" -s "SCHEDULE" -f c:\listfile -t
> MS-Windows-NT -w 2:00:00
>
> This would run as a User Backup Type rather than a
> Full or Differntial. So "SCHEDULE" would need to be a
> User type schedule.  Also make sure the window for the
> schedule is open when the batch file runs.
>
> There -w 2:00:00 would wait two hours for the command
> to complete. Used in a batch file, else the processing
> continues right away in the batch file.
>
>
>
> --- "Block, John - IST contractor"
> <John.Block at mkcorp.com> wrote:
>
> > Is this for a one time situation or re-occurring?
> >
> > If it is one time, you can do a search for files and
> > set the archive
> > attribute so that they get picked up.  I don't know
> > how to do this
> > though a batch file, but I am sure that someone
> > does...
> >
> > John
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: veritas-bu-admin at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> > [mailto:veritas-bu-admin at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On
> > Behalf Of MCare
> > Backup
> > Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 1:16 PM
> > To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> > Subject: [Veritas-bu] Is a date-specific backup
> > possible?
> >
> > I'm trying to do a backup of all files
> > accessed/created within a certain
> > time range.  I'm figuring that this is possible,
> > even if only so from
> > the command line.  Could anyone help shed some light
> > on this for me?
> >
> > We're running NBU v. 4.5 on Win2K3.  The client we
> > need to back up is a
> > Win2K server.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Skip
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