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Title: Viewing backup tape contents on Windows
Post by: axcairns on June 05, 2005, 02:43:31 PM

Hi all,

I have been backing up my 6.0.1 system for some time using Flexbackup on DDS4 tapes. I just picked up a second DDS4 tape drive and have installed it in my WinXP desktop.

Is it possible to view the contents of my SME Server backups and selectively retrieve files using the tape drive in my Windows PC?

Thanks,

Allan

Title: Viewing backup tape contents on Windows
Post by: mbachmann on June 06, 2005, 04:31:41 PM

If i remember correctly the backup is "only" compressed tar.gz or bzip data. So if you got a Windoze unpacker able to handle those formats - yes.

Title: Re: Viewing backup tape contents on Windows
Post by: Quail_Linux on June 06, 2005, 07:06:16 PM

Quote from: "axcairns"

Is it possible to view the contents of my SME Server backups and selectively retrieve files using the tape drive in my Windows PC?

Hi,

Yes you are able to do it.  You will need a program like WinRAR to uncompress the backup.

HTH

Title: Viewing backup tape contents on Windows
Post by: CharlieBrady on June 06, 2005, 08:11:07 PM

Quote from: "mbachmann"

If i remember correctly the backup is "only" compressed tar.gz or bzip data. So if you got a Windoze unpacker able to handle those formats - yes.

First you'll need to be able to read the tape.