Re: Server backup suggestions.

["Roger Vicker, CCP" <rv-tech@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Chuck,

Actually NOT OK. 11d does not work on WS08. That was what the tape drive 
manufacturer supplied. And now they say that they are not getting 12 to 
provide to people who upgrade their server or are buying a new drive for 
WS08.

Roger

On 6/9/2008 1:31 PM, Chuck Lewis arranged the binary bits such that:
> Ohhhh - OK. Well it figure their Backup software would not be up to par with
> the 3rd parties :-)
>
> We use Symantec Backup Exec 11d so we would be OK :-)
>
> Thanks !
>
> Chuck
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Lukas Beeler
> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 12:07 PM
> To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
> Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Server backup suggestions.
>
> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Chuck Lewis <chuck.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>   
> > Is this a typo:
> > <...and Microsoft no longer supports tape drives.>
> >     
>
> No it's not - it's undetailed ;)
>
> Windows Server 2008 comes with Windows Server Backup which, to put it
> bluntly, sucks. It only supports Disk to Disk backups.
>
> Tape drives are of course fully supported in Server 2008, you just
> need 3rd Party Software to use them.
>
>
>