You can refer below article

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415

Yes, I know that!!!! But that doesnt provide a script for me to do that......I no nothing about scripts from my original post and looking for script from my original post...thanks though....but no good for i already seen that article for that is where i download the app from....

try this

@echo off
net use Y: \\path-to-your-networkshare /u:administrator passowrd
if exist Y:\test.vhd del Y:\test.vhd
disk2vhd C:  Y:\test.vhd

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 line # 2, replace \\path-to-your-networkshare  with the actual path of your network device, replace administrator and password with the real passwords.

It will map a network Drive Y: and create image of your C: in the Y: drive as a file name test. before that it will del the existing file if present.

let me know if you want to modify something

I have both a C and D drive that i need backed up nightly to a NAS device into a shared folder on that device...is it possible to make this that???

Thanks for all your help....

Okay, this is in powershell. Just copy it into notepad and save it as something.ps1

 

$UNCPathToShare="\\NAS\backup"

$DriveLetter="x:"

$filename = (get-date -uformat %d%b%y) + "_" `
            + $Env:COMPUTERNAME + ".vhd"

$drive = new-object -com wscript.network
$drive.MapNetworkDrive($DriveLetter, $UNCPathToShare)

c:\disk2vhd.exe c: d: ($driveletter + "\" + $filename)

$backups = dir x: *.vhd

if ($backups.Count -gt 1) {
        foreach ($backup in $backups) {
          remove-item ($driveletter + "\" + $backup) `
             -Exclude $filename
               }
   }
    
$drive.RemoveNetworkDrive($DriveLetter)

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Change the path for $UNCPathToShare to whatever the share is that your exporting to.

I can't get disk2vhd to work on my machine period via the command line, so I'm not 100% certain that this will even run (have you been successful running this from command line?).

The file name is today's date and the machine's hostname.

The script will delete any other backup aside from Today's backup, so long as there is more than one file in the folder that is .vhd (this runs after the export, so there should be two files and it will delete the older one).

Note that if you have never used powershell to run scripts, you'll need to set the execution level. Open Powershell.exe and run

Set-ExecutionPolicy remotesigned -force

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Powershell will do as well. If u want to use batch,then change c: with * and save it

wasnt looking for powershell.....how about vbs scribt????????

Powershell works on Server 2008 (installed by default)... why do you want vbscript?

just a preference...never used powershell and no nothing about it...

hey manufest,

Your script worked fine for me up to creating the vhd, but i'm having am struggling to get the removal of previous .vhd to work. Seems it fails at the Exclude command. Got any further ideas. Thanks in advance.

Missing expression after unary operator '-'.
At C:\mapdrive.ps1:20 char:15
+              - <<<< Exclude $filename
    + CategoryInfo          : ParserError: (-:String) [], Pars
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : MissingExpressionAfterOperator

Still waiting for response for not working

Check that last post!! I had to put a 'wait' command in after the disk2vhd command and before the cd command, to allow completion of creating the vhd before changing drives to delete old .vhd's.

Hope this helps!!


$filename = (get-date -uformat %d%b%y) + "_" `
            + $Env:COMPUTERNAME + ".vhd"

$DriveLetter="w:"

c:\disk2vhd c: ($driveletter + "\" + $filename) | wait-job
 
cd $driveletter

remove-item .\* -exclude "$filename",admin* -force

still working on this

thanks to both of you for your help