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July 12, 2004 Enhancing BackXP.vbs A Web Exclusive from Windows IT Pro Alistair G. Lowe-Norris Feature InstantDoc #43080 Windows IT Pro	Email this Article Printer Friendly Reader Comments Digg This Del.icio.us RSS
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I enhanced BackXP.vbs so that it records the results of the ntbackup.exe and rsm.exe calls in the XP system's Application event log. Web Listing 1 (http://www.winnetmag.com/windowsscripting, InstantDoc ID 43080) shows the revised script called EnhancedBackXP.vbs. I accomplished the enhancement by modifying the code at Callout B in Listing 1 in "Us . . .

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