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Tape backup
When I reinstalled Win98SE, I was pleased to see that my Sony SCSI DAT
tape drive was recognized (displayed in Device Manager). My euphoria was shortlived when I discovered that the backup utility still offers only a disk file as a backup destination. How do I get the backup utility to see the tape drive? MB |
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Tape backup
What backup program are you using? BackUp My PC works with tape, cd, dvd or
even to a hard disk. Could be you need to reinstall your program again after the tape drive install. Or, maybe your backup program needs a new driver to see your tape drive. -- Don -------- Vancouver, USA - One of the great cities in one of the 45+ countries in the Americas! "Minnie Bannister" wrote in message ... When I reinstalled Win98SE, I was pleased to see that my Sony SCSI DAT tape drive was recognized (displayed in Device Manager). My euphoria was shortlived when I discovered that the backup utility still offers only a disk file as a backup destination. How do I get the backup utility to see the tape drive? MB |
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Tape backup
I'm trying to use the Backup utility included with Win98SE. When I go to
the screen where I choose to install it (it doesn't get installed by default), it says it supports tape devices. MB On 05/31/04 12:05 am Don Schmidt put fingers to keyboard and launched the following message into cyberspace: What backup program are you using? BackUp My PC works with tape, cd, dvd or even to a hard disk. Could be you need to reinstall your program again after the tape drive install. Or, maybe your backup program needs a new driver to see your tape drive. |
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Tape backup
You might be better off using the backup program supplied with the tape
drive. Please see: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];242864 Tape Backup Units Supported by the Windows 98 Backup Program -- Jeff Richards MS MVP W95/W98 "Minnie Bannister" wrote in message ... I'm trying to use the Backup utility included with Win98SE. When I go to the screen where I choose to install it (it doesn't get installed by default), it says it supports tape devices. MB On 05/31/04 12:05 am Don Schmidt put fingers to keyboard and launched the following message into cyberspace: What backup program are you using? BackUp My PC works with tape, cd, dvd or even to a hard disk. Could be you need to reinstall your program again after the tape drive install. Or, maybe your backup program needs a new driver to see your tape drive. |
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Tape backup
presuming the generic windows program "Msbackup.exe".
or do you mean the software utility that came with the drive? "Don Schmidt" Retired wrote in message ... What backup program are you using? BackUp My PC works with tape, cd, dvd or even to a hard disk. Could be you need to reinstall your program again after the tape drive install. Or, maybe your backup program needs a new driver to see your tape drive. -- Don -------- Vancouver, USA - One of the great cities in one of the 45+ countries in the Americas! "Minnie Bannister" wrote in message ... When I reinstalled Win98SE, I was pleased to see that my Sony SCSI DAT tape drive was recognized (displayed in Device Manager). My euphoria was shortlived when I discovered that the backup utility still offers only a disk file as a backup destination. How do I get the backup utility to see the tape drive? MB |
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(OT)Tape backup philosophy
As usual I probably am out of step with the world, but I've never cared
for tape backup. That was really driven home on an HP 1000 system on time when the tape drive refused to read beyond record #n for whatever reason. Not only that, supposed I backup my OS with some compressing BU scheme and I want to recover the Registry. How now brown cow? I've opted to BU to CDs on an selected file basis. If I have to reinstall Win it certainly does no good to recover from an image of the previous system. I'd appreciate learing from tape backup advocates... Don Jeff Richards wrote: You might be better off using the backup program supplied with the tape drive. Please see: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];242864 Tape Backup Units Supported by the Windows 98 Backup Program -- Jeff Richards MS MVP W95/W98 "Minnie Bannister" wrote in message ... I'm trying to use the Backup utility included with Win98SE. When I go to the screen where I choose to install it (it doesn't get installed by default), it says it supports tape devices. MB On 05/31/04 12:05 am Don Schmidt put fingers to keyboard and launched the following message into cyberspace: What backup program are you using? BackUp My PC works with tape, cd, dvd or even to a hard disk. Could be you need to reinstall your program again after the tape drive install. Or, maybe your backup program needs a new driver to see your tape drive. Username munged by FixNews -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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(OT)Tape backup philosophy
Unless you're backing up huge amounts of data (in the range of 4gb or more)
I would eschew tape backup entirely and consider an image-based backup. All the current market leaders in the drive imaging software market allow single-file restore from a backup. With hard drive space being relatively cheap a good backup strategy would involve buying a second hard drive and using your image-based backup utility to store backups on the second drive. If you buy a big enough hard drive you can keep several backups stored on it so you can step back and recover from a past time if necessary. -- Richard G. Harper [MVP Win9x] * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups * for the benefit of all. Private mail is usually not replied to. * HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm Don@NoSpam wrote in message ... As usual I probably am out of step with the world, but I've never cared for tape backup. That was really driven home on an HP 1000 system on time when the tape drive refused to read beyond record #n for whatever reason. Not only that, supposed I backup my OS with some compressing BU scheme and I want to recover the Registry. How now brown cow? I've opted to BU to CDs on an selected file basis. If I have to reinstall Win it certainly does no good to recover from an image of the previous system. I'd appreciate learing from tape backup advocates... Don Jeff Richards wrote: You might be better off using the backup program supplied with the tape drive. Please see: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];242864 Tape Backup Units Supported by the Windows 98 Backup Program -- Jeff Richards MS MVP W95/W98 "Minnie Bannister" wrote in message ... I'm trying to use the Backup utility included with Win98SE. When I go to the screen where I choose to install it (it doesn't get installed by default), it says it supports tape devices. MB On 05/31/04 12:05 am Don Schmidt put fingers to keyboard and launched the following message into cyberspace: What backup program are you using? BackUp My PC works with tape, cd, dvd or even to a hard disk. Could be you need to reinstall your program again after the tape drive install. Or, maybe your backup program needs a new driver to see your tape drive. Username munged by FixNews -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =----- |
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(OT)Tape backup philosophy
Backup to tape allows me to have multiple sets of backups: full backups
on 4 DDS4 tapes each week, with a separate set for each week of a two-month cycle, plus daily differential backups, with a full set stored in another location from time to time. i don't see doing anything like this with extra hard disks. MB On 05/31/04 08:33 am Richard G. Harper put fingers to keyboard and launched the following message into cyberspace: Unless you're backing up huge amounts of data (in the range of 4gb or more) I would eschew tape backup entirely and consider an image-based backup. All the current market leaders in the drive imaging software market allow single-file restore from a backup. With hard drive space being relatively cheap a good backup strategy would involve buying a second hard drive and using your image-based backup utility to store backups on the second drive. If you buy a big enough hard drive you can keep several backups stored on it so you can step back and recover from a past time if necessary. |
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(OT)Tape backup philosophy
A removable hard drive would be storable off-site (this is what I use for my
personal backups), or you could back up to CD-R or DVD-R discs depending on the size of the backup. DDS-4? How much data are you backing up? :-) -- Richard G. Harper [MVP Win9x] * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups * for the benefit of all. Private mail is usually not replied to. * HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "Minnie Bannister" wrote in message ... Backup to tape allows me to have multiple sets of backups: full backups on 4 DDS4 tapes each week, with a separate set for each week of a two-month cycle, plus daily differential backups, with a full set stored in another location from time to time. i don't see doing anything like this with extra hard disks. MB On 05/31/04 08:33 am Richard G. Harper put fingers to keyboard and launched the following message into cyberspace: Unless you're backing up huge amounts of data (in the range of 4gb or more) I would eschew tape backup entirely and consider an image-based backup. All the current market leaders in the drive imaging software market allow single-file restore from a backup. With hard drive space being relatively cheap a good backup strategy would involve buying a second hard drive and using your image-based backup utility to store backups on the second drive. If you buy a big enough hard drive you can keep several backups stored on it so you can step back and recover from a past time if necessary. |
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(OT)Tape backup philosophy
Tape backups are suitable for very large volume data storage, using high
quality commercial drives. Typical home-user tape backup units are not reliable enough, and offer no significant advantages over hard drive, CD or DVD. I have never been a fan of tape backup units for home users, but I have used them very effectively in a commercial environment. It's an old hobby horse of mine, but I maintain that if a backup set can't be restored to a clean hard drive from a floppy boot then what's the point of creating it? Most Windows-based tape backup software require Windows to be re-installed before the system can be restored. Of course, there are many different reasons for maintaining a backup, but a fast restore to a new hard drive strikes me as a fairly important feature. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP W95/W98 Don@NoSpam wrote in message ... As usual I probably am out of step with the world, but I've never cared for tape backup. That was really driven home on an HP 1000 system on time when the tape drive refused to read beyond record #n for whatever reason. Not only that, supposed I backup my OS with some compressing BU scheme and I want to recover the Registry. How now brown cow? I've opted to BU to CDs on an selected file basis. If I have to reinstall Win it certainly does no good to recover from an image of the previous system. I'd appreciate learing from tape backup advocates... Don |
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