Vault Backup Tip

[ryan]

Here's a tip that I wanted to pass along to the Vault community that i've begun to do when deploying the vault for customers:

I found a free utility on the internet called "Bmail" which allows you to send email from the command line in Windows. This is useful because i've configured the vault backup script to automatically send the system administrator an email in which the backup log is the body of the message.

The utility can be downloaded here: http://www.beyondlogic.org/solutions/cmdlinemail/cmdlinemail.htm

After downloading the zip file and extracting it, place the bmail.exe in the same directory as the executable used for the vault backup and then add these lines to your backup script and tweak it for the SMTP server (outbound email server), recipient address and log filename:

-Watch for Wordwrap-

REM - Send Backup Report using "Command Line SMTP Mailer for Windows" available at "http://www.beyondlogic.org/solutions/cmdlinemail/cmdlinemail.htm"
REM - Extract the zip file and move the "bmail.exe" file into the "...\Data Management Server 4.5\Vault Manager\" directory

bmail -s SMTPSERVER -h -t RECIPIENT -f Vault@Backup.Status -a "Vault Backup Status" -m BACKUPLOG -c

-Ryan

Ryan Small
SolidCAD
www.solidcad.ca