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HP DAT 72 Tape drives

  • 10-03-2010 06:43PM
    #1
    mwin80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45 ✭


    Hi,

    Anybody know how to copy data to an internal HP DAT72 tape drive on a HP server? for example:

    I need to take data from server (a). IE: i will be copying the data from this server to an external USB hard drive. I then need to take this data to server (b) which has two internal DAT72 tape drives and copy the data from the external usb hard drive on to the tape drives. The tape drives in server (b) are installed and working properly but i just don't know how to get data from the USB drive on to the tapes. The OS does not assign a drive letter to the tape drives so i can't just copy and paste. I'm assuming that i need some sort of HP application to do this. Would this be correct? Anybody know what app i need? Does anybody have any ideas on how i might do this?

    thanks in advance.


Comments

  • #2
    fayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 913 ✭✭✭fayer


    Tape is not a medium like a hard drive, you need to use program that will stream the data to the drive. What OS are you on?


  • #3
    mwin80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45 ✭mwin80


    windows 2003 server


  • #4
    fayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 913 ✭✭✭fayer


    You will be able to use NTbackup to copy the data to Tape, its on the OS.


  • #5
    mwin80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45 ✭mwin80


    great, thanks for the reponses. Any idea where i can find NTbackup?


  • #6
    tech
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,871 ✭✭✭tech


    NT backup is part of Server 2003 or most MS Os's


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  • #7
    fayer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 913 ✭✭✭fayer


    Start > Run > ntbackup.exe are far as I can recall.


  • #8
    mwin80
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45 ✭mwin80


    great stuff, thanks. I'll give it a go.....


  • #9
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 95,914 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    with tape the big problem is restoring
    please label the tapes with OS and tape backup software versions

    check if the server already has backup software first, as this may intefere with ntbackup and visa-vesa, the tape software may also have it's own tape drivers. If the server already has a backup app then you can use it if you are sure that the software will be available when you want to restore.

    if installing tape drivers or software or patches for them, you will likely have to restart the server


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