Automated Backups With the Help of Windows Scripting - Pick a File, Any File
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The first thing we need to do is turn the list of wanted files into a list that ntbackup can understand. What better way to do that could there be than to use ntbackup itself? So go ahead, click Start > Run.... Type 'ntbackup.exe'.
When the initial screen comes up, switch to 'Advanced Mode'. Click the 'Backup' tab, and you should be at a screen like this:
Go through your list and check off all the folders that you decided you need to have backed up. But don't do the backup! Not yet at least. We're just going to save the selection list for now. To do that, click Job > Save Selections.
This part is important: instead of saving the list in the default directory (C:Documents and SettingscanjxcLocal SettingsApplication DataMicrosoftWindows NTNTBackupdata), we're going to place it in our own folder. Whatever folder you choose to create (such as c:backup), this will be the folder we place everything in, to make our script easier to configure, and more portable.
So you've saved the selection file, let's move on to the actual script.
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