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May 4th, 2011 19:00
Backup of Sourceone
Hi
Looking at the backup of sourceone, the admin guide mentions the use of 2 suspend vbs scripts to be performed a a pre-exec job and 2 resume vbs scripts to be performed a post-exe jobs, part of our backup strategy.
At the moment, I am just trying to run these scripts (from \utility\ 6.6SP1,using the cscript command.
According to the documentation, it should output some messages, but in my case none of the scripts output anything.
Not been a VB script expert, I do not know how to modify the scripts to troubleshoot. I noticed that the scripts create a log trace/file, but again I cannot find it.
Is there something else to do?
On another note, our enterprise backup software does use VSS. Is it still a requirement to suspend/resume sourceone for its backup?
Thanks
Gary_Reardon
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May 4th, 2011 19:00
Are you using an x32 or x64 server?
Cscript is located in a different location for each.
I typically make a batch file for pause and resume, something like this for pause:
cscript E:\Installables\Backup-Scripts\ES1_ActivitySuspend.vbs
cscript E:\Installables\Backup-Scripts\ES1_NativeArchiveSuspend.vbs
If it's an x64 machine use the path for cscript:
c:\windows\SysWOW64\cscript.exe
Gary_Reardon
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May 4th, 2011 19:00
The point of the pause is to backup all the related functions in a consistency group:
Archive, Indexes, Message Center and SQL.
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May 4th, 2011 20:00
Thanks Gary
Running the command with the c:\windows\syswow64 path did the trick.
Aprreciated your prompt reply