Replacing Tape Drive
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Name: Sidahmed
Date: August 28, 2003 at 13:00:32 Pacific
Subject: Replacing Tape DriveOS: NT4 ServerCPU/Ram: 450mhz 1Gig RAM |
Comment: Hi,
One of my servers has now got far too much data for my old DDS3 tapes and I am looking at replacing this with an AIT3 drive, Sony SDX-700C.
I am hoping this is quite simply a matter of swapping out the drives and installing the driver for the AIT3 drive.
Am I wrong?
Any tips?
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Response Number 1
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Name: wanderer
Date: August 28, 2003 at 14:41:13 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Did you lookup on the web this item and see if it reads dds3 tapes? If so then you should be fine. In my Backup Exec 8.6 it will see the new unit but you will have to configure your scheduled backups to use the new hardware since they will not autoupdate. But you will figure that out after the first failed back and looking at the error log.
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Response Number 2
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Name: Sidahmed
Date: August 29, 2003 at 04:03:03 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Am buying AIT3 Tapes too.
The DDS tapes are too small. And I use NT Backup.
So you saying I will have to re-do my AT schedule for backups?? Thanks for responding. Sid.
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Response Number 3
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Name: wanderer
Date: August 29, 2003 at 10:13:21 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)You should not have to change your scheduled jobs. NTbackup just uses whatever device is installed under tapes drives. Again check to see if the new unit supports reading your dds tapes or you will not be able to read the data off the dds tapes if the drive doesn't support that format.
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