re: A shrinking backup window

Chris Knight — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 11:55:53 GMT

The SBS integration for the nice pretty reporting in Server Management as well as in the daily reports is handled by bkprunner.exe. This program is a wrapper and launches ntbackup with appropriate command lines switches for either disk or tape backup, which I

My primary diagnostic tool was FileMon and Process Explorer, where I could see what got launched when running the backup Scheduled Task. Process Explorer was then used to verify the command line arguments when I started modifying bkprunner.exe.

Remember, I'm modifying the backup wrapper program - bkprunner.exe - not ntbackup.exe.

Also, please remember that this modification breaks the digital signature verification, so the binary may be flagged as a potential trojan/virus, but I haven't encountered problems with it yet.

re: A shrinking backup window

Dean — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:21:43 GMT

I would like to know where Chris found out that modifying the ntbackup exe file was the same as appending the /FU switch at the end of the command line.