Who does not script with us, scripts against us.
A script, the best friend of an administrator. A correctly written script will save work, increase productivity and, well, I am not afraid to say, bring also global peace. [Peter Bash]

Creation of the backup script.
NetBackup.lite is an application based on scripts. Its core is a runtime (Backup.exe), which works on a station and backs up data by means of a script. Now we will create a script. In the last example we have created several folders which are required to be backed up. The easiest solution is to back up everything through one script. A folder not found by NetBackup on the backed up PC shall be skipped.

To create new script, run the Administrator. You will find it in the program folder, its name is "Administrator.exe". The first button, "Create a new backup script", serves just to this effect. Select the option "New script", which opens a wizard to create new script....

Each command (task) consists of several items. What is supposed to be backupped, where is it supposed to be backupped. Whether you want to copy also the files, which have not been changed when performing the next backup and in which file the report of backup (log) should be saved. Please note the button "Insert variable". It will insert the variable $COMPUTERNAME$ in the line "Where to backup" - at the end. This variable will enable dividing the data being backed up into more subfolders. Thus for example in this case the data from the folder "C:\Dokumenty" on a "MAC" computer will pass to the folder "\\racek\netbackup\mac\Dokumenty". You can use this variable how many times you want.

Starting from the version 1.5 NetBackup newly recognizes two kinds of backup, which you will select from the option under the button "Add". The first one, classical, has the icon and serves for incremental backup and is designated as "Backup". The second one, "Synchronization", , enables you to synchronize the target folder with the source one. What advantages has it? If you backup for example every day and yesterday you erased the file "Letter.doc" from your source folder, in case of a normal backup it still stays in the target file. Thus many files which are no longer actual are still saved in the folder on the server. On the other hand synchronization will ensure, that the content of the target folder will always be absolutely identical with the source folder.

NetBackup can skip some files or, as the case may be, backup only some files. The application differentiates this according to extensions, so if you want for example to prohibit backing up of files with extensions mpg, mpeg, mov and avi, you will select "files except following" and enter them in the box "Extensions" in a format separated by a semicolon. I.e. as follows: "mpg;mpeg;mov;avi;". All these rules shall apply even if you use both the mode "Backup" and "Synchronization".

The button "Save" will save the script. We recommend using the extension .script for scripts, however, there are no bounds set to your fantasy. We will name it "All.script".

Any questions? If so, try to study the manual from [the beginning], otherwise [we go on].