While setting up some backup scripts for a windows server (using NasBackup - go go gadget free plug) I realized I should also be backing up certain registry keys to go along with the files. Clearly a solution that could be initiated from command line (in a bash batch script as I can’t write VBscript and don’t want to learn) would be the best option.

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Over the weekend, one of my backup scripts started erroring out while sending the backups offsite to an FTP server. The error message was:

200 Port command successful
150 Opening data channel for file transfer.
netout: Broken pipe
550 can't access file.

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