On the Shadow Copies tab, you select a drive letter and then click the Settings button.In Windows Server 2008, you open Windows Explorer, you right-click a drive, and then you click Properties.The benefit would be that I would not have to upload the backup on a ftp server on the Internet but on my home network which would mean that transfers would be much faster.This article provides a solution to an error (Error 0x8000ffff: Catastrophic failure) that occurs when you change Shadow Copy settings for a drive.Īpplies to: Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Original KB number: 2973100 Symptoms My modded Xbox has ftp build in and enough hard drive space to store the backups. I did not think of it at the beginning of the article but it is also possible to backup the files to a gaming console like the Xbox. It is possible to manually start a backup as well. If you have scheduled backups they should be automatically started when the date and time is reached. The newly created task should appear in the left pane of the main menu afterwards. It makes it possible to run the backup as another user. executing a file, closing a program or restarting or shutting down the computer. They let you exclude files from being backed up or let you include only certain file types for instance.Įvents can be configured to happen before and after backups, e.g. The Special, Events and Advanced menus are not needed to create the backups.
Select Zip compression and choose to split the files. This is a good idea normally because it will reduce the file size and you will be left with just a few zip files in the ftp directory and not hundreds of files. The Archive menu configures if you want to compress the files before uploading them to ftp. I set it to weekly which is sufficient for the kind of data that I want to backup. Options include Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly plus Once, Manually and Timer. The Schedule menu configures when you want to run the backups.
The message All tests passed should appear if everything went well. A click on the test button tests the ftp connection, it displays errors in red. The four settings under Connection are the only ones that are required, all others are optional. You can add TSL (Transport Level Security), a proxy, SSL, IPv6 extensions and much more. Note that there are submenus on the left, those can be used to configure the transfer in details. Enter the IP, username, password and working directory. Select Add Ftp Site as the destination which should open a new window where you can enter the login details for the ftp site. Start it after installation, you will be greeted with the following screen. Please download Cobian Backup and install the software. Remember that ftp accounts can also be created on Windows computers using programs like Filezilla Server for instance which means that you could transfer backups between accounts as well. If someone would like to know let me know and I could write another article about it. I will not explain how to setup an ftp account in this article. Ghacks for instance uses less than 200 Megabytes of storage space plus less than 100 Megabytes for the database. It really does not matter if you have a root server or just a shared account because those normally have Gigabytes of storage as well, mostly unused. The plan is to use the backup software Cobian Backup 8 to create scheduled backups and upload those backups straight to my root server using an ftp account I created for that purpose. I thought of some good uses for that space and came up with the idea to use it to store backups from my computers. I'm using three dedicated servers at the moment with more than a Terabyte of free hard drive space.
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