Re: URGENT!!! Clients cannot connect or even ping server

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You wou't see the tape drive (unless you are using a REV Drive) in windows Explorer

You should see it in your backup program
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"muaddib32" <muaddib32@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:270DEAB7-C2EE-457A-995F-2FA742050557@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks for the help. Perhaps I didn't explain myself clearly enough, the
tape drive does not appear as an item (nor does it appear in Windows
Explorer, but it does appear in device manager which claims it's correctly
configured)

"Charlie Russel - MVP" wrote:

> Open the backup application (Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools,
> Backup) in restore mode and click on Browse when you are prompted for where
> to restore from. From there, you can point it at the tape drive and your
> latest tape, and it will read what is stored on the tape and let you recover
> from that.
>
> --
> Charlie.
> http://msmvps.com/xperts64
>
>
> muaddib32 wrote:
> > I have had a system crash and have restored to an image two months old.
> > This in itself is not an issue, except that:
> > 1) Clients cannot connect to the server. Clients are assigned IP
> > addresses by the DHCP server but cannot connect to exchange, file shares
> > or in fact even ping the server. I booted the server into safe mode with
> > networking and at that point the client could ping the server
> > 2) I could probably fix this if I could restore the latest backup but I
> > can't work out how to restore the backup from the tape. It only lists
> > images that it knows about from two months ago, not what is on the tape
>
>
>

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