Tuesday, April 7, 2009

How to automatically schedule Windows 2003 ASR Backup without Floppy Disk

Windows 2003 introduces a very useful disaster recovery tool called ASR (Automatical System Recovery Backup). It's very use to schedule ASR backup without a floppy before disaster happens, you can write a script file with correct switches. There is a hidden switch you can use, the "asrbackup". The following is a sample:

ntbackup.exe asrbackup /n "ASR for myServer" /d "ASR for myServer" /v:yes /r:no /rs:no /hc:off /m normal /j "SystemBackup" /l:s /f "D:\ASR\ASR_myServer.bkf"

How ASR Works http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/DepKit/7b4f0436-cc90-4b52-b6ab-064f9db8d272.mspx
Guidelines for Using ASR http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/DepKit/ec2605a5-22b0-4f01-83e7-171bc4cbdf04.mspx

1 comment:

  1. Great! Can I define for myself when it'll do the backup ?(I think it should be at least on a daily bases...). This has been really helpful, thanks!

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