NT Backup

I've got a lot to learn about this thing, and I'm going to document my struggles here...

SBS 2003 - trying to make this work right with NTBackup, and get it running optimally...

Trying to get email notifications of failures... Ok got this working as well. I had to go into the Health Monitor (under Administrative Tools...) and change the SMTP server from LOCALHOST to a the real domain name for my server (something like mail.domain.com). I also re-ran the Set Up Monitoring and Reports Wizrd and used the domain users' names (instead of the full email addresses). So in my case instead of gsmith@domain.com, I just used gsmith.

NTBackup performance improvements...

More performance...

More Performance...

I've just started to try some of these improvements, and my back times have been *significantly* reduced.

To summarize:

1. I modified bkprunner.exe with XVI32.exe (free binary editor).
2. I modified the Registry hive for SBS Backup User

I think that was it. Huge improvement.

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Gorgar...

Just updated the Gorgar site with a little new info...

SMC 16 port 100Mbit switches - smc-ez6516tx

I've had 2 of these fail. Switches have probably been the most reliable pieces of hardware I've ever used. Wondering if others have had similar problems... I also had one other 16 port switch fail (can't remember the brand off hand) . I wonder do they all use the same chipset internally?

Gorgar...

Been working on my Gorgar pinball machine trying to get it to work... Check out the history on my site... My Gorgar Site.