Windows Server 2008 R2 Backup to WD My Book Live

1#) NAS wouldn't let me set static IP with subnet of 255.255.254.0, had to set static IP mapping to the MyBookLive MAC address on the DHCP server on my pFSense box.

The user name being used for accessing the remote share folder is not recognized by the local computer

2#) The Windows Server Backup Scheduler. Wouldn't accept the username login. To resolve that issue I created a new user account on the NAS called "ServerBackup" with a password. and set private share to \ServerBackup.

Then I created a user account on Active Directory (AD) with the same username and password, and added the account to the "Backup Operators" group.

After that I was successfully able to schedule a backup to the network share.

[Update]
The windows backup schedule did not run as expected. Found it's much easier to just setup a scheduled task to run a backup.bat file with the command for each server:

Wbadmin start backup -backupTarget:\\192.168.1.2\ServerBackup -include:C: -vssFull -user:ServerBackup -password:entermypassword -quiet

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Tips:
- Don't manually map the network drive share under "My Computer".

- Connect to network share via IP address not network name. [E.g. \\192.168.1.3\ServerBackup, NOT \\MyBookLive\ServerBackup]

- Don't Install the WD Smartware software on Windows Server 2008 R2 it does nothing...

* GPO Local security add user to “logon as batch service”
* Win2k3 set user as member of backup operators on local computer group management
* set login account on both domain and NAS
* add domain username to “backup operators” group on domain
* set task to start with assigned user account
* set task to start with highest privileges checkbox
* set task to run when not logged in

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Optional Manual Backup Commands:
Wbadmin's syntax:

wbadmin start backup -backuptarget:wheretobackup -include:drivetobackup1;drivetobackup2... -quiet

So, for example, to back up drives C: and D: to drive K:, you'd type

wbadmin start backup -backuptarget:k: -include:c:;d: -quiet

And that works fine, even if K: is a mapped drive. In fact wbadmin will take UNC paths, like

wbadmin start backup -backuptarget:\\servr1\share1\backups -include:c:;d: -quiet

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References:

http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=132&t=55929

http://www.minasi.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=37328