How to use wbadmin to backup in Windows Vista 2008
Wbadmin is a backup command line tool that comes with Vista and Windows
2008. With Wbadmin, you can
back up and restore your operating system, volumes, files, folders, and
applications from a command prompt.
Runs
a recovery of the full system (at least all the volumes that contain
the operating system's state). This subcommand applies only to
Windows Server 2008, and it is only available if you are using the
Windows Recovery Environment.
Deletes the backup catalog on the local computer. Use this
subcommand only if the backup catalog on this computer is corrupted
and you have no backups stored at another location that you can use
to restore the catalog.
This
subcommand applies only to Windows Server 2008.
Example
wbadmin start systemstatebackup -backupTarget:D:
In this example, we are backing up system state to D
drive.
WBADMIN START BACKUP -backupTarget:f: -include:c: -quiet
In this example, we are backing up the C: drive and placing that backup on
the F: drive. With -quiet switch, it doesn't requires the user interaction.
To back up specific folders, you would simply type in the folders seperated
by a comma, like this:
-include:c:\temp,d:\mdata
Note: The wbadmin command
replaces the ntbackup command that was released with previous
versions of Windows. You cannot recover backups that you created with
ntbackup by using wbadmin. However, a version of ntbackup
is available as a download for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista users
who want to recover backups that they created using ntbackup. This
downloadable version of ntbackup enables you to perform recoveries
only of legacy backups, and it cannot be used on computers running Windows
Server 2008 or Windows Vista to create new backups. To download this version
of ntbackup, see
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=82917.
