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Gordon Price
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Wed Nov 09, 2005 9:50 pm Post subject:
Basic Removable Storage question |
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I am trying to use NTBackup and an LTO-2 tape drive to do a weekly offsite
backup, with daily backup done to hard drives on the machine that houses the
tape drive. This works great, with one problem. As far as I can tell,
NTBackup and Removable Storage work on the old paradigm of a Monday tape for
the Monday incramenta, a Tuesday tape for the Tuesday, etc. All the tapes
have to be named and backup jobs can only point to one named tape. I want to
set up a Sunday Tape job, that just over-writes whatever is on the tape in
the drive, no questions asked. I put a tape, be it an already used tape or a
brabd new one, into the tape drive on Friday night, and Monday morning I have
a tape to do a test restore from, then take off site.
Is there any way to do this, or am I stuck with software that just doesn't
work with the current technology.
And please, if your comment is to not do daily backup to hard drive, be
aware that that is not a viable answer for me, for some very solid business
reasons.
Thanks,
Gordon |
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cristalink
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Wed Nov 09, 2005 9:50 pm Post subject:
Re: Basic Removable Storage question |
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The /UM command line switch allows to unconditionally overwrite the first
tape in a backup set, see
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=314844.
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"Gordon Price" <GordonPrice@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | I am trying to use NTBackup and an LTO-2 tape drive to do a weekly offsite
backup, with daily backup done to hard drives on the machine that houses
the
tape drive. This works great, with one problem. As far as I can tell,
NTBackup and Removable Storage work on the old paradigm of a Monday tape
for
the Monday incramenta, a Tuesday tape for the Tuesday, etc. All the tapes
have to be named and backup jobs can only point to one named tape. I want
to
set up a Sunday Tape job, that just over-writes whatever is on the tape in
the drive, no questions asked. I put a tape, be it an already used tape or
a
brabd new one, into the tape drive on Friday night, and Monday morning I
have
a tape to do a test restore from, then take off site.
Is there any way to do this, or am I stuck with software that just doesn't
work with the current technology.
And please, if your comment is to not do daily backup to hard drive, be
aware that that is not a viable answer for me, for some very solid
business
reasons.
Thanks,
Gordon |
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Sam
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Sun Nov 13, 2005 5:50 pm Post subject:
Re: Basic Removable Storage question |
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Gordon,
While you are already backing up into hard disk, you may want to add
Relative Rev Backup (http://www.datamills.com). It will create on any
hard disk local or removable a backup archive that goes months back
saving the latest x-intra daily, y-daily, z-weekly, and w-monthly,
letting you instantly recover a lost/corrupted file/folder from few
hours, days and months before.
Every session copies only the latest changes, so it is economic on
space and bandwidth, and yet it can recover any retained version as if
you are doing it form a full backup.
It is designed for unattended operation so you can set the number of
versions to retain, and it will automatically purge the older ones.
Since it does not use the archive bit you may continue to use Backup
Exec to do the weekly tape backup (since you already invested, and just
for being on the safe side). In most cases, however, you will be able
to recover your files without having to search for the right tape, plus
you will add a backup history that goes months back without having to
multiply tapes.
--
Joe Rom King
http://www.datamills.com
Gordon Price wrote:
| Quote: | I am trying to use NTBackup and an LTO-2 tape drive to do a weekly offsite
backup, with daily backup done to hard drives on the machine that houses the
tape drive. This works great, with one problem. As far as I can tell,
NTBackup and Removable Storage work on the old paradigm of a Monday tape for
the Monday incramenta, a Tuesday tape for the Tuesday, etc. All the tapes
have to be named and backup jobs can only point to one named tape. I want to
set up a Sunday Tape job, that just over-writes whatever is on the tape in
the drive, no questions asked. I put a tape, be it an already used tape or a
brabd new one, into the tape drive on Friday night, and Monday morning I have
a tape to do a test restore from, then take off site.
Is there any way to do this, or am I stuck with software that just doesn't
work with the current technology.
And please, if your comment is to not do daily backup to hard drive, be
aware that that is not a viable answer for me, for some very solid business
reasons.
Thanks,
Gordon |
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