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Tapes made with ARCServe

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by ogruizr

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I have some tapes of backup that were made using ARCServe in a server Novell Netware. Now my servers only are Windows 2000 Advanced Server. Can I use NTBackup to read those tapes? What can I do to read those tapes?

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by timthetoolman

Hi,

Although I've never tried it, I am 95% confident that you wont be able to use NTbackup to read those tapes.

ARCserve puts all sorts of extra information on the tapes... basically they are a different format.

I think you're going to have to re-install ARCServe somewhere to get the data off again.

Here's the QA section for ARCServe. I didn't spot anything there to suggest otherwise, but a few sections that vaguely support what I've just said...

http://support.ca.com/techbases/as61/asnwfaq.html

(remove spaces from the above URL)

Cheers,
Tim.

by antoniocardoso

You cannot read tapes made with arcserve with NTBackup.

You can obtain a trial 30 days copy of arcserve for windows and restore the tapes, and then use NTbackup if you want to be able to restore it in any windows system.

good luck

by ogruizr

I installed ARCServe 2000 in a Windows 2000 Advanced Server but I can't restore the tapes. I only could see the labels.

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