Topic: Tape Backup Drive Advice and Desktop Backup

[ccupani]

Can anyone give me a recommendation on a resonable known Tape Backup Drive that will work on SME server 7.0?

Also I have been backing up to my desktop for two days now and it is still hanging up on 3.99gb.  After a while it just cancels itself and there is no backup file.  This is the first time I have had trouble with this.

Any help would be appreciated.


Thanks

Carmine

[daniel]

I've found about any of the HP or exabyte DDS tape drives work fine on my SME7.

[jarthurs]

What machine and media are you backing up to? If you're backing up to a FAT32 volume on a Windows machine you may be experiencing the 4Gb file size limit. I had a similar problem backing up to DVD-RAM media as these were FAT32 formatted, a reformat to UDF allowed me to exceed the 4Gb file size limit.

As mentioned I've not had any problems with any of the HP SureStore DAT drives I have around here and even my two DEC DLT drives (a 15/30 and a 35/70) are picked up fine.

Regards,
Jason.