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Mark
Hi, I have an old travan tr4 (seagate) drive and some old tapes that I
dug up recently. For fun, I decided to reconnect the tape drive to my
XP SP2 box (after 6 years) and see if it worked. It did! Not only that
but it was able to catalog the old tapes in ntbackup. I tried a restore
and that's where to problem started. It runs for a few files and then
the tape drive just stops. No errors - nothing. After a day, I cacel
the job and it just cancels fine. So, I've no idea where the problem is
but thought I'd try different software. What I need is backup software
that:
- runs on xp (most seem to run on server editions only)
- can import ntbackup tapes
- is a bit more robust than ntbackup!
I thought of the old Seagate software but it is not symantec and their
software (the desktop version) doesn't even know what a tape is!
It's not urgent or anything, but does anyone know of any software that
I can try to get data off these tapes. As I say, they cataloged fine in
ntbackup, just not restore.
TIA
Mark
dug up recently. For fun, I decided to reconnect the tape drive to my
XP SP2 box (after 6 years) and see if it worked. It did! Not only that
but it was able to catalog the old tapes in ntbackup. I tried a restore
and that's where to problem started. It runs for a few files and then
the tape drive just stops. No errors - nothing. After a day, I cacel
the job and it just cancels fine. So, I've no idea where the problem is
but thought I'd try different software. What I need is backup software
that:
- runs on xp (most seem to run on server editions only)
- can import ntbackup tapes
- is a bit more robust than ntbackup!
I thought of the old Seagate software but it is not symantec and their
software (the desktop version) doesn't even know what a tape is!
It's not urgent or anything, but does anyone know of any software that
I can try to get data off these tapes. As I say, they cataloged fine in
ntbackup, just not restore.
TIA
Mark