Script to run Windows backup

[edutech4schools]

I need to take a system state backup once a week to a local drive (not our only backup by the way) and I need it to run via task scheduler, but have found two commands while Googling that seem to do the same thing, or do they.

 

One of the bat files I have found starts with

wbadmin start backup ..............

 

but another site has it as

wbadmin enable backup ..............

 

I would guess I should use start but never having used a script to run the backup, thought I had better check.

[Steve21]

Start does a one-time run.

 

Enable turns on the built-in backup scheduler

 

If you're using schedule task just use the start one

 

Steve

[edutech4schools]

Any reason why this is not running

 

In Task Scheduler / actions (program / script) I have wbadmin

 

and in (add arguments) I have start systemstatebackup -backupTarget:Y: [-quiet]

 

When I run the task it just says starting.

[Steve21]

Who's it running under? As in is Y mapped for that user and they have access to it? e.g. System user wouldn't

 

What's OS is the server as can't backup to remote drives in some old ones for statebackup.

 

Steve

[edutech4schools]

Y drive is a partition on the local server which is 2008r2. I am running it under (for testing) my domain admin acc.