Comments on: OCS 2007 R2 Standard Edition Front End Automated Backups

By: JMS

JMS — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:15:09 +0000

And here is the fix for the above instructions. You placed single quotes around the variables. They need to be double quotes. The below example might be truncated by the website poasting.

exec expressmaint
@database = "ALL_USER",
@optype = "DB",
@backupfldr = "c:ocsbackup",
@reportfldr = "c:
eports",
@verify = 1,
@dbretainunit = "days",
@dbretainval = 1,
@rptretainunit = "weeks",
@rptretainval = 1,
@report = 1

By: JMS

JMS — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:44:22 +0000

I also get an error for line 2 and line 15 for:
database = 'ALL_USER'

By: JMS

JMS — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:33:33 +0000

I'm having the same troubles as Nancy Jiang. Label c has already been declared. Any ideas about why that happens?

By: Nancy Jiang

Nancy Jiang — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:36:35 +0000

The back slash keeps truncating when it's published. Any way, you know what I try to show you. Thanks!

By: Nancy Jiang

Nancy Jiang — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 07:34:10 +0000

Of course, it should look like:

@backupfldr = ‘c:OCSBackup’,
@reportfldr = ‘c:TempRapporter’,

Nancy

By: eshudnow

eshudnow — Fri, 14 May 2010 02:05:48 +0000

Looks correct.

By: Pawel

Pawel — Fri, 07 May 2010 00:00:28 +0000

Many thanks for great article, much appreciated!!
my $0.02

you can, if you wish to, split Global Config and Pool Config backup to two separate xml files:
If you prefer to back up each of the two levels of settings to a separate configuration file (.xml file), run the command two times, with the following modifications:
•For the /level attribute, specify only one of the two setting levels (global or pool) each time you run the command.
•For the /configfile attribute, specify a different, unique file name for each level.

I use ExpressMaint utility (found it thanks to you!) with command line switches for SQL dbs backup http://www.sqldbatips.com/showarticle.asp?ID=29

I've placed service account for that scheduled task into RTCUniversalReadOnlyAdmins group (so config backup runs ok) and local Administrators group on OCS box (so SQL dbs backup can run). Is that correct?

By: Petri

Petri — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:50:48 +0000

Thanks, great post. Can you also write post about restoring SE front-end?

Btw, is there little spelling mistake in file names here:
"You take this code and save it as storemaint.sql. Then run the following code:
“C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft SQL Server90ToolsBinnsqlcmd.exe” -S .RTC -i c:ocsbackupexpressmaint.sql"

Should the file name storemaint.sql be expressmaint.sql?

By: Petri

Petri — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:50:48 +0000

Thanks, great post. Can you also write post about restoring SE front-end?

Should the file name storemaint.sql be expressmaint.sql?

By: SID

SID — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:35:11 +0000

Thanks