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Replace DVD-RAM drive with HP DAT72 Tape Drive

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pckng

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I am trying to replace the existing DVD-RAM drive with a new HP DAT72 Tape drive on the NCF III, after the new Tape drive is installed with the appropriate driver, the Windows XP O/S can recognise the new Tape drive, but the NICE Admin cannot see this tape drive in the backup device, anyone has experience on that?
 
hi the configuration in d:\ntlogger\logger\config will be expecting a DVD drive. A process called bsrv (backup server is responsible for picking up archive drives) check bugfind for errors start\programs\nicelog server\bugfind.

also logs in d:\ntlogger\logger\logs will show you whats going on.
 
my very personal opinion.
avoid tapes!
I have maintained several 7.x and 8.x machines and generally speaking, tapes are very risky of faliling when writing backups, or failing with retrieving them.
DVD-RAM are not flawless anyway, but are mechanically more resistant, and always faster
I would like that the nicelogs with tape could be upgraded to DVD-RAM

Thanks for reading.

=== remember that NICE is not so nice ===
 
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