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I am running a win2000 server on a network that can "see" the rest of the network. The shared drives of all the users are hosted on another server accessible from my server. I am wondering, using the win2000 backup utility how is the best way to setup a system of incremental backups that will backup the shared drives on regular basis. Have tried before and I get backups that don't work or in which I can't get any documents to restore.

I was wondering is someone could walk me through setting up proper backups that will work.

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It's best to avoid using NTBACKUP for this purpose. It's essentially unsupported and is intentionally crippled.

If your backups are worth doing, they are worth doing right and I suggest Veritas BackupExec. It's a mature product, supports just about every tape device ever made, is very well supported by Veritas (formerly Seagate) and is rock solid when it counts, namely when you need to recover something.

I've used it for years and it have saved me so many times I can't recall them all.

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