Windows WBADMIN.EXE will run from win 10/11 but not Windows Server

[paulkudla]

See code below 👍

works as is on win 11

but not Server 2019 which is based on win 10?

When i run on the server version I get 👍

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Starting Backup .... C:\Windows\system32\wbadmin.exe ['wbadmin.exe', 'start', 'backup', '-backuptarget:\\10.0.0.2\images', '-include:C:', '-allcritical', '-quiet'] [b'wbadmin.exe', b'start', b'backup', b'-backuptarget:\\10.0.0.2\images', b'-include:C:', b'-allcritical', b'-quiet']

Traceback (most recent call last): File "winbackup.py", line 201, in wba_versions_process=subprocess.Popen(param_encode(wba_versions_args, locale.getdefaultlocale()[1] ), executable=wbadmin_bin, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE) File "C:\python3\lib\subprocess.py", line 854, in init self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds, File "C:\python3\lib\subprocess.py", line 1307, in _execute_child hp, ht, pid, tid = _winapi.CreateProcess(executable, args, FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

F:\Programming\python\Windows Backup>python Python 3.8.0 (tags/v3.8.0:fa919fd, Oct 14 2019, 19:21:23) [MSC v.1916 32 bit (Intel)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

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any help would be appreciated, more then happy to donate, probably a windows rights / permissions issue but cant figure it out ?

thanks

• Version of Python and pywin32 3.8.10 / pywin32-303

!/usr/local/bin/python3

import os, sys, socket, struct, select, time import logging, logging.handlers, traceback import win32serviceutil import servicemanager,win32evtlogutil,win32evtlog import win32event,subprocess import win32service,win32api,win32timezone from multiprocessing import Process, freeze_support

import smtplib from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart from email.mime.base import MIMEBase from email.mime.text import MIMEText from email.utils import COMMASPACE, formatdate from email import encoders

import platform, locale

from optparse import OptionParser USAGE_TEXT = '''\ usage: %%prog %s[options] '''

parser = OptionParser(usage=USAGE_TEXT % '', version='0.4')

parser.add_option("-m", "--mail", dest="mail_to", help="Email Report To", default = 'monitor@scom.ca') parser.add_option("-d", "--destination", dest="destination", help="Destination Path")

options, args = parser.parse_args()

print (options.mail_to) print (options.destination)

if options.destination == None : print ('No Destination Provided') print ('Exiting .....') sys.exit()

options.destination = options.destination.replace('\','\\' )

print (options.destination)

print ('Starting Backup ....')

def param_encode(lst, encoding, errors='strict'): """return a new encoded list of string""" if isinstance(lst, list): newlst=lst[:] for i, v in enumerate(lst): newlst[i]=v.encode(encoding, errors) return newlst elif isinstance(lst, unicode): return lst.encode(encoding, errors) else: return lst

name='wbadmin' exe='wbadmin.exe'

C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0

systemroot=os.environ.get('SystemRoot', os.environ.get('windir', 'C:\windows')) wbadmin_bin=os.path.join(systemroot, 'system32', 'wbadmin.exe') wevtutil_bin=os.path.join(systemroot, 'system32', 'wevtutil.exe')

print (wbadmin_bin)

wba_versions_args=[ exe, 'get', 'versions', ]

wba_versions_args=[ exe, 'start', 'backup','-backuptarget:%s' %options.destination, '-include:C:', '-allcritical', '-quiet' ]

print (wba_versions_args) print (param_encode(wba_versions_args, locale.getdefaultlocale()[1] ) ) print ()

wba_versions_process=subprocess.Popen(param_encode(wba_versions_args, locale.getdefaultlocale()[1] ), executable=wbadmin_bin, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE) wba_versions_out, wba_versions_err=wba_versions_process.communicate()

wba_versions_out = str( wba_versions_out).split('\r\n') wba_versions_err = str( wba_versions_err).split('\r\n')

out = '' error = ''

for n in range (0,len(wba_versions_out)) : print (wba_versions_out[n]) out = out + wba_versions_out[n] + '\n'

print () print ()

for n in range (0,len(wba_versions_err)) : print (wba_versions_err[n]) error = error + wba_versions_err[n] + '\n'

[mhammond]

See https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32#support