NTBackup comprises a GUI (wizard-style) and a command-line utility to create, customize, and manage backups.
The new backup system provides similar functionality but uses the Virtual Hard Disk file format to back up content.
It saves NTFS permissions, audit entries and ownership settings, respects the archive bit attribute on files and folders and can create normal, copy, differential, incremental and daily backups, backup catalogs, as well as Automated System Recovery.
[7] NTBackup from Windows XP and newer includes Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) support and thus can back up locked files.
Scripting enables the system administrator to automate and schedule backups of files and system state, control the RSM to follow a media rotation strategy, reprogram the RSM to work with external HDD and NAS as well as tape, send email reminders to prompt users to insert the media and compile backup reports that include logs and remaining capacity.
When trying to restore, NTBackup may display messages like "The Backup File Is Unusable", "CRC failed error" or "Unrecognized Media".