Windows vista tape backup

Please let me know if this helps you. Zack Microsoft Answers Support Engineer. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. Art at SSA. In reply to Zack -'s post on March 29, I am having the same problem with Windows Vista Business. The tape drive driver is loaded and the drive is working properly, but the backup program does not give me the option to backup to tape.

Is this an option with Vista Business? In the left pane, choose Create a system image , and then follow the steps in the wizard. If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation. You can keep several versions of system images. On internal and external hard drives, older system images will be deleted when the drive runs out of space.

To help conserve disk space, delete older system images. If you're saving your system images in a network location, you can only keep the most current system image for each computer. If you already have a system image for a computer and are creating a new one for the same computer, the new system image will overwrite the old one.

If you want to keep the old system image, you can copy it to a different location before creating the new system image by following these steps. You can use a restore point to restore your computer's system files to an earlier point in time. Restore points are automatically created each week by System Restore and when your PC detects change, like when you install an app or driver. Here's how to create a restore point. Select the System Protection tab, and then select Create.

In the System Protection dialog box, type a description, and then select Create. To look through the contents of the backup, select Browse for files or Browse for folders. When you're browsing for folders, you won't be able to see the individual files in a folder. A long filemark contains a long erase gap that enables an application to position the tape at the beginning of the filemark and to overwrite the filemark and the erase gap.

A normal filemark does not contain an erase gap. Tape devices that use filemarks support either short and long filemarks or normal filemarks, but not all three.

The area on a partition between setmarks or filemarks is available for recording data. A unit of data written to or read from a tape is referred to as a block. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Backup — Windows and Windows Server. Sign in to vote. I've also tried a DDS4 drive with similar results. I found a couple of unanswered forum posts around the web suggesting that tape support had been dropped I have many customers who also backup desktops to tape still and this could become an issue when W7 releases.

If I know for sure that someone else has tape backup working, then I'll be patient and await a suitable driver, but there is an ominous omission of any reference to 'tape' in the help! It would be ironic if now Microsoft have finally started prompting users to backup, they remove one of the prime methods Friday, July 10, PM. Tuesday, July 14, PM. Had to go through painful steps to get drivers for my Adaptec card. What I had to end up doing, and this may be a function of the backup software I am using, was disable the tape drive in Device Manager.

Might want to give that a try. Sounds counter-intuitive, but for whatever reason, it worked. Thanks for the feedback and I think you've at least in part answered the question in that you have tape backup working. I was however hoping to use the built-in backup rather than a third party application and was trying to establish if the built-in backup supported tape devices like ntbackup did.

I think my problem is driver related as the tape drive doesn't show in device manager, but nor are there any 'unknown devices' etc.