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by blewis

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ok, its seems strong, very much like Veritas software.

I have some dumb questions (easy points).
please answer all questions to acquire points!!!!

How do I :

a. Check tape for what is actually on it. My media names never match up to what is on the tape.

b. Restore / check data on a tape if the media is not already present in the Backup Software?? seems lame if I can't.

c. direct me to the best resource for this kind of information, microsoft site doens't help much at all and haven't found anything else.

Thanks you all!

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by Member 36317532

Greetings

I have some bad news for you!
It may not work correctly !!!???

We did an evaluation for our bespoke software on a W2K network for a client, utilisting W2K server & a UNIX server, all PC's where W2K.
The outcome being that we stuck to the UNIX backup method. There is definatly a bug in the PC backup software and judging by the info on technet there are alot of issues with the server backup and restore.
I personally would use Veritas but you obviously don't have that option?

It may pay you to do some more digging

by blewis

Ok, here is a trick I learned. Use the eject feature from computer management to remove the tape, that way when you enter another tape, the system will refresh correctly and you can label the new tape and allocate it as necessary!

I am dissapointed I didn't get any help with this, I am sure others have found these same little tricks with backup software.

Maybe next time

by blewis

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I need resources for backup questions with NTbackup.exe for Windows 2000

Anybody know?

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