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The New and Improved NTBACKUP in Windows Vista
Thursday, July 13th, 2006
Although NTBACKUP has been around for well over a decade, it has remained relatively unchanged 
since its debut in Windows NT. In creating Windows Vista, Microsoft has given NTBACKUP a much needed overhaul and worked out a lot of the quirks.
Sometime during the early 1990s, I was attending my very first MCSE class. As you would expect from a class that was designed to teach the students all about Windows NT Server, there was some material presented regarding backing up Windows NT Server via NTBACKUP. At the beginning of this lesson, I very distinctly recall my instructor saying that NTBACKUP will work in a pinch, but that you shouldn’t bet your job on it always working perfectly. I was intrigued to say the least, but NTBACKUP functioned perfectly during the lab portion of the class. The company that I was working for at the time was using a third party backup utility, so I eventually forgot all about NTBACKUP.
NTBACKUP never actually went away though. NTBACKUP received a slight makeover in Windows 2000 and remains largely unchanged to this day in Windows Server 2003 and in Windows XP. The New and Improved NTBACKUP Program
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