Creating backups with ntbackup.exe onto CD (command-line cd burner

Windows 2000 doesn't have cdrw support does it? I'm trying to create a backup
of a folder that works off of a scheduled task. Do you happen to know a
cdburner that you can run from the command line, under windows 2000?

I just want to put in a CD before I leave work, and then the backup script
run at like 9:00pm and then when I come in the next morning I'll just put
that CD or CDRW up.
I just don't know exactly how to create CD's from the command line.

David Harris

Kevin
Tue Mar 15 18:03:42 CST 2005

First, I'm not a fan of using CD R/W (or DVD R/W) directly on the server, so
if I was doing it, I would use a CD R/W located on a workstation.

You can use NTBackup to backup your folder to a networked disk location, and
then create a batch file to copy/write that file to the CD, and schedule it
to start for sometime after the backup would complete. So, if the NTBackup
of that folder takes 5 minutes to complete, schedule the copy to occur at
9:15pm.

--
Kevin Weilbacher [SBS-MVP]
"The days pass by so quickly now, the nights are seldom long"


"David Harris" <DavidHarris@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Windows 2000 doesn't have cdrw support does it? I'm trying to create a
> backup
> of a folder that works off of a scheduled task. Do you happen to know a
> cdburner that you can run from the command line, under windows 2000?
>
> I just want to put in a CD before I leave work, and then the backup script
> run at like 9:00pm and then when I come in the next morning I'll just put
> that CD or CDRW up.
> I just don't know exactly how to create CD's from the command line.
>
> David Harris