NTBackup Help

[toledoman]

Hi,

I'm trying to use NTBackup on my W2k SP4 server. When I run NTBackup, my "Backup Destination" option is gray'ed out and only allows me to backup to a file.

I have the Yosemite 7.0 SP4 installed and working fine. Device manager see's my Seagate STT20000A just fine.
Removable Storage Manager is also running.

I have this almost identical hardware & software configuration running on a test server with no problems. Yosemite & NTBackup are playing nicely together there.

The server this is running correctly on has SATA hard drives and in IDE interface for the tape drive.

The problem server has a SCSI RAID for the hard drives. But it does have an IDE tape drive, just like the test unit that is working.

The tape drive was not installed at the time the OS was loaded if that matters to anyone.

Is there something in the registry that needs or can be tweek'ed to correct this? I've searched on-line for answers to this issue and can not find anything relating to it.

I did stop & disable the the Yosemite TapeWare services then reboot the server. Same results.

Any help will be appreciated!

Thank you!

 

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[toledoman]

Thanks for the insight. I don't have the $$$ in the budget to purchase another product when NTBackup is there. I have used it on several machines before with no problems at all.

I do want to get the NTBackup working. I want to maintain the portability between systems for ease of restoring files backed up from one server tape drive to another.