IBM LTO2 and ntbackup/rsm

[itgetsmybackup]

I know that the obvious answer is "don't do it; use a proper backup tool", but the question has to be asked anyway ! Can ntbackup and removable storage management on W2K be used with an IBM LTO2 ? I know it is not the optimum combo, but somebody doesn't want to spend £$£$£ on a third party backup suite....!

 

[comtec17]

Why spend so much money on a high end tape drive without the software backing it? Sorry, had to get that out there.

To answer your question, yes.

 

[itgetsmybackup]

Well, if you must know....
The customer has spent his money on PowerQuest V2I protector to provide server disaster recovery; it is essentially a dataless server that does not need a file based backup; however, the server comes with an LTO drive as standard and so they wanted to use it as an occasional archive capability....