Win2008 Backup

I'm trying to do the following but we are having difficulty getting it to work properly.

We have a local server that we want to use to store backups of remote servers on. We have multiple remote servers and we don't want to go to each one and run the command to backup to the network share. What we want to do is run the backup command from the local server, have it backup the remote data to the local server. We might have (example) 5 remote servers that all need to get a full backup daily (example).

So pretty much what I'm asking is if there is a way to make a batch command that could backup the remote data to the local server where the command is being run from? The remote data is mapped as a shared drive ie: [URL="file://\\server-path\share"]\\server-path\share[/URL]

Sorry if the way I worded this is confusing.. Any help is appreciated

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Asif Dasl

You could use RoboCopy or cwRsync (a windows version of Rsync), RichCopy (Robocopy replacement) or something like BackupExec or BackupAssist would handle that no problem.

You may need to set up a scheduled task to run the backup if you use cwRsync or RoboCopy.

newt.chapman

3rd party software isn't allowed on any of the stations

Hoping to do it with the default windows backup tool

Asif Dasl

AFAIK the built-in backup in Server 2008 is for local drives only. You could try XCOPY that's built in to the OS. It's not as powerful as Microsoft's RoboCopy or it's replacement RichCopy but it should do the trick if you schedule a batch file with it.

Bloogen

If your convinced of getting this to work or just as a proof of concept you could try to create a junction point on the local drive that points to the network share.

I am not sure how well Windows Server Backup handles junction points to a network location and I would NOT recommend it if it does work. You may want to do some testing and decide for yourself, it shouldn't take long to discover if its workable.

What about running a 3rd party app on a VM, Server or workstation which is dedicated to running the backup software?