Re: SBS2003 and tape backup

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From: Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] (sbradcpa_at_pacbell.net)
Date: 06/28/04


Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 21:38:00 -0700

The way I did this in SBS2k was to schedule 2 separate jobs.

Mike Buras wrote:
> I have a server running SBS2003. The server has two hard
> drives and two Onstream DI-30 tape drives installed in it.
> I want to use Tape 0 to backup the entire contents of
> drive C and Tape 1 to backup the contents of drive D. I
> used the wizard, but cannot set up the two tape backups.
> Can you suggest a way to make this work or suggest a
> document that would explain how to make this work?

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