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by ma

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I have two clients, one running W98SE, the other running W2KServer. All that either of them wants to do is perform an unattended full backup every night, rotating tapes on Seagate Travan tape drives, overwriting the tape.
The problem seems to be in getting the backup to recognize set and/or media names/labels of the tape it is to overwrite. The 98 machine is running Retrospect Express on a Seagate Travan ST-20000A USB tape drive. The 2000 Machine is running Microsoft NTBACKUP with a Seagate Travan IDE 20000A. If you need more information, please email me.

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by gigelul

I use other software but to mentain the same name in backup history for rotated tapes (if this is the problem) you must check the definition/settings of your scheduled jobs.
For example in my backup software when I define a new job I have and which default are something like and <"current date">. I change these to and and so on and now the rotating history are clear. Also if I want to set a label for media this is a separate options.
Hope this help you.

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