And you most likely would have run into issues with using it.
The help, when executing the program without switches shows a command -d for specifying the database, -E for using windows credentials, and -f for the backup folder:
blackberrydbbackup.exe -d BESMgmt -E -f c:\backup
That does not work, no matter what you seem to do, even though Blackberry support and all forums show it as being the proper command sequence.
Well after a half hour of hitting my head against the wall, a solution was born:
blackberrydbbackup -dBESMgmt -E -f c:\backup
Note the no space after the -d and the .exe taken out.
When the script was written, it seems someone made a few mistakes.
The .exe extension is taken as a part of the switch it seems, and the help needs to be modified to reflect the -dDBname.
Dont even bother using -U and -P for username and password. Nothing i tried worked.
-Udomain\besadmin
-Udomain\BESAdmin
-U domain\besadmin
-U domain\BESAdmin
-Ubesadmin
-UBESAdmin
-U BESAdmin
-U besadmin
-UBESAdmin@domain
-U BESAdmin@domain
-U:all of the above
and the same for -P of course.
When scheduling the script for this using Windows Scheduler, -E is enough, as the windows credentials will be passed.
Just enter the besadmin info when saving the job.
Someone posted online about using the AT command to run as a system service along with -U and -P so as to not have to change the password for the job each time the Besadmin pw changed.
That makes no difference, as even if you got the -U and -P to work properly, when the besadmin pw is changed you would still have to modify the script with the new -P.
By the way the tool along with blackberrydbrestore.exe is located in the tools folder on the Blackberry cd.
Thank you
