Re: Backup to tape

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From: cristalink (cristalink_at_nospam.nospam)
Date: 12/22/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 08:52:40 +1300

What backup module are you talking about? NTBackup usually overwrites tapes
without any problem, at least when running interactively. You may want to
read http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=314844 

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"Russ" <Russ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:0CD66FF4-A002-495B-8F57-F6D1E0408485@microsoft.com...
> The backup module with Server 2003 seems confusing.  Our tapes have old 
> data
> on them and I want to save a clean backup each time, overwriting the old, 
> but
> it seems to always want to append data, and the tapes fill.  Is there a
> setting to reformat a tape each time it runs?  I'm sure I clicked the 
> setting
> to overwrite, but still the tapes contain all sorts of old stuff when
> examined in the restore tab.  I wish this module had a progress report 
> like
> the Veritas program, listing bytes backed up, time, errors, etc., but I 
> don't
> find that at all.  Should I reformat each tape manually before scheduling 
> a
> new backup job?  What is the best way to verify that the backup was
> successful?  Thanks for comments!

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