Re: Windows Tape Backup Functions
Jonas Temple wrote:
>
> 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:
WriteTapemark writes a specified number of filemarks, setmarks,
short filemarks, or long filemarks to a tape device.
These marks tell the tape where to stop, and start writing
data and is similar to marking the sectors on a hard drive.
Here is some information that might help.
http://nukz.net/reference/fileio/hh/winbase/tapeback_0rlc.htm
Bernie
My files in archive:
WMOTOR, XMOTOR, W32ENGIN, MIXEDLIB, EU_ENGIN, WIN32ERU, WIN32API
Can be downloaded here:
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&win=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=bernie+ryan
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