Backup and Restore Operations

This section gives step-by-step procedures for performing interactive backups, scheduling backups, and restoring files.

Performing an Interactive Backup

You can run backup jobs interactively from the Ntbackup window or you can schedule them to run in the background. Unlike NT, you can use Ntbackup to both configure and schedule backup jobs. The steps in this section assume that you have a blank tape. If the tape already has backup files on it, you'll be prompted in several places to confirm overwriting the tape name and its contents and whether you want to import the tape into the RSM Free media pool.

The steps in Procedure 21.3 describe how to configure and run an interactive backup job using the Advanced view of ...

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