Microsoft® Windows® Scripting Self-Paced Learning Guide

On Your Own: Lab 38 Backing Up the Metabase

In this lab, you are going to practice backing up the metabase.

Lab Instructions

1. Open Notepad.exe.

2. On the top of a blank page, set Option Explicit.

3. Save your file as Lab38Solution.vbs.

4. Declare the following variables: strPassword, strFilePath, strMetabasePath, intFlags, locatorObj, providerObj, and computerObj. Your completed Header information section will look like the following:

   Option Explicit
   Dim strPassword
   Dim strFilePath
   Dim strMetabasePath
   Dim intFlags
   Dim locatorObj
   Dim providerObj
   Dim computerObj

5. Define three constants to be used to control the export behavior: EXPORT_CHILDREN = 0, EXPORT_INHERITED = 1, and EXPORT_NODE_ONLY = 2. The EXPORT_CHILDREN constant is used to add the properties of child ...