DAT 72x6 and NTbackup

[CA1331860]

I'm unable to make NTbackup work on SBS 2003 with a HP DAT 72x6 external autoloader.

Are there any good directions out there on how to make this configuration work?

[Volker Spies]

Hello Sean,

could you describe your problem a littel bit precise?

Regards

Volker

[Lewis Finch]

you don't say exactly what the issue is, detection, no driver? To start with, make sure you have LUN support enabled in your SCSI BIOS

[CA1331860]

Well, to be completely honest, I'm not sure how to configure NTbackup so that it writes to different tapes?

I know, I'm a rookie with autoloaders, so I'm sure most of my problems are related to me not configuring the software correctly.

[Lewis Finch]

you still didn't mention if you had LUN support enabled. You need this for the autoloader to work. As you computer boots, look for the instruction to access the SCSI BIOS. For adaptec it is ctrl a. Then access the scsi id of your drive and set LUN support to enabled

[CA1331860]

Okay, I'll check that out and get back to you.

Thanks,

[CA1331860]

Okay, so I turned on the LUN support in the BIOS. Seems to work a little better now.

However, I still have questions about how to configure the backup job to write to different cartridges.
Basically, Iâ m really confused about the whole â librariesâ thing.

[Harry Serabian]

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/winntas/maintain/backup.mspx

This is the TechNet page for NT Backup. In the disadvantages section it states

"The TBU does not support tape libraries."

[CA1331860]

So that would mean that NTbackup is unable to automatically change cartridges, correct?

[meloni]

NTBackup do not support libraries, but support autoloaders.
Autoloaders can be used in stacker mode vs random mode of the libraries.
this mean that command should just be load and not load tape number 2 for example.
NTBackup can issue this "load" command, autoloader will each time load next tape.
Then you need to program the backup tool to load every day next cartridge.

[CA1331860]

I'm looking into purchasing HP StorageWorks Data Protector Express Package for Microsoft® Small Business Server Media, will this work well with the DAT 72x6 autoloader?

Thanks,

[meloni]

http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/storage/software/datapexp/index.html

looks like a right choice, device and sw are supported