The "New" NTBACKUP

If you've migrated from Server 2003 to Server 2008 you might have noticed that NTBACKUP has changed. Some would say for the worse since you can not specify only certain directories or files to be backed up. It can only do full drive copies. The GUI is also makes it impossible to do a scheduled backup to a network location. But worry not as it is possible with a little batch file that you can then run as a scheduled task. I've posted an example below.

wbadmin start backup -backupTarget:"\\server1\placeIwantbackuptogo" -include:C:,E:,X: -allCritical -vssFull -quiet

That will start a full backup of C, E, and X to the specified network location. Make sure you have space on your destination host for this. If you are up to date on your patches (which you should be) whne you do a restore you can do a regular restore as well as an "Exchange Aware" restore that will only restore the relevant Exchange 2007 files from the backup to the original or new location you specify.