Backup Utility - NT4 to W2K

[Rick Morgan]

I am having trouble with Backup/Restore from tape. The Backups were created
with NT4 Backup utility.

I am attempting to Restore on a WIN2000 System. The Backup/Restore control
panel sees the tape and the Tape Name, but does not display any
volumes/files on the tape. Under the Restore tab, I see my tape Name under
"Import". The Volume column on the right side shows "No entries found."

I know the tapes contain good data as I have done Backup & Restores from
theses tape under NT4.

Any help/solutions would be GREATLY appreciated!

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[Daniel Chang [MSFT]]

Have you tried looking for updated drivers for your tape drive? Do the
tapes show up RSM?

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[Rick Morgan]

Thanks for your response Daniel..

We do have the current drivers. We are using HP SureStore DLT 40. W2K
drivers from HP expand out to Quantum DLT 4000 drivers. We have those
installed. Did a re-install today, but no change.

A little more info - when Backup Utility launches we are presented with a
dialogue box asking if we want to allocate import media to backup at this
time or later. I declined. When the App is opened, I have three location
choices under Restore: DLT, File & Import. It is under Import that I see my
tape. All three location choices are greyed out and are unselectable. At no
point have I allocated the import media to backup.

Today I noticed that the default file extension Backup/Restore is looking
for is .bkf. The files that I have on my tapes are copies of SQL DB files
and have either .dat or .bak for an extention.

Does any of this additional info help?

Thanks in advance!

Rick Morgan

 

[Daniel Chang [MSFT]]

AFAIK you need to import the tapes in RSM then restore in ntbackup.

I did a quick websearch and it seems other people just kept an NT machine
around to restore NT tapes.

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[Rick Morgan]

AFAIK you need to import the tapes in RSM then restore in ntbackup.

I did a quick websearch and it seems other people just kept an NT machine
around to restore NT tapes.

Hi Daniel,

Thanks again for responding. I meant to ask you yesterday - what is "RSM"?
As far as keeping an NT machine available, that was something I was hoping
to do. So far the idea has been nixed, but we may need to move in that
direction.

Thanks again Daniel!

Rick Morgan

 

[Daniel Chang [MSFT]]

Removable Storage Manager. It's in the computer management console.

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[AllStreamIt]

Hi there,

You can test the BKF file using demo version of BKF-Recovery.

AS

Removable Storage Manager. It's in the computer management console.

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