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I am trying to get NT Backup to recognize the CD-RW and not just a tape drive. Has anyone been able to do this?
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Microsoft’s NT Backup was made to use a tape drive. I’ve never seen let you use anything but a tape drive, even a jaz. You’ll probably need to use a thrid party backup prog.

Mike Wolfman

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Try NovaBack. It works nicely on NT and has a wide variety of media support. I use it on my laptop and I used it on our servers in my last job.

http://www.novastor.com[/url%5D

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Charlotte – thanks for the tip – I’ve been looking for a realistically priced backup solution for a while, and this is in a different league to the ‘industrial strength’ solutions which, when bundled with a tape drive, put you well on the way to paying enough for a new workstation……….

A good product for ‘software founds and wants’??

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Actually, I’m using NovaDisk now (comes with the NovaBack product), which allows me to backup to a CD-R, HD, USB port or firewire drive rather than a tape drive. Other than the difference in media, the product works the same way, but I have to say that firewire is MUCH faster than SCSI tape.

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Likewise, I’m using NovaDISK – I reckon that the combination of a RAID configuration on my workstation and b/up to file on the hard drive of a second machine offers adequate redundancy.

Having seen how well it works, I suspect it won’t be long before I get a pocket external device to fill the ‘what happens if the house burns down’ gap…..

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Well my 120Gb firewire drive certainly isn’t in the pocket category, but it is portable … and fast!

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I have used PowerQuest’s DataKeeper 3.0 for nearly a year. It works nicely on my NT WS4 system with an HP 8200 series CD-RW drive. See http://www.powerquest.com

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