IDE Tape drive and Backup software

This may not be the answer that your looking for - but. I have been backing up my 4.11 server files onto my Colorado Jumbo on a 98 machine using the old windows favorite software. The current setup is the Seagate Version on 98SE. The only reason I did it this way was due to poor performance on the server using Arcserve. I have had decent success even over the T1 with my second plant 22 miles away. It works for a temporary setup. What baffles me about your question is why doesn't backup exec work under the IDE format

I am beginning to think that the workstation solution may be the best bet. Netware backup (SBCON) performance has been acceptable but it's a royal pain to do a restore from and cumbersome for my operators to use. I don't understand the Veritas position of not supporting IDE tape drives either but that came direct from their tech support group.

You may use the Tape Emulator and make a backup into file. This file you may place on your IDE hard disk.

Tape Emulator is available on:
http://developer.novell.com/support/sample/tids/sms_emu5/sms_emu5.exe - for NetWare 5.x
http://developer.novell.com/support/sample/tids/sms_emu4/sms_emu4.exe - for NetWare 4.x

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