Windows Tape Backup Functions
I was wondering if anyone here has any experience with the Windows tape backup
functions. I've been given an older but still very good IBM Magstar tape library
(this thing was ~$15K brand new) for FREE! I got the library installed and it
shows up in hardware manager for Windows XP Home but the backup utility that
comes with XP doesn't display the drive in the "target" options. The drive
responds fine using NTUtil.
I'm considering writing my own backup program using the Windows backup
functions. They don't seem to be too complicated so I imagine it will be more
trial-and-error to figure out how to make them work. Specifically, I can't
understand the WriteTapeMarker function.
If this is going to take months to write a simple backup program then I'll just
forget the whole thing but as this library can back up ~400GB without handling a
tape I thought it would be worth a try! :)
Jonas Temple
http://www.yhti.net/~jktemple
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