- Using hard disks as removable devices
- Posted by Scumbag Adie on March 9th, 2006
What is it that determines if a hard disk appears as a removable device or
not? I want to use external SATA or SAS disks with a backup program instead
of a tape drive for backups and the disks don't seem to appear under the
management of the removable media manager.
- Posted by cristalink on March 9th, 2006
I like this question. Your HDD will never appear in RSM unless you use
http://www.firestreamer.com/fsrm/
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- Posted by Adie on March 13th, 2006
Thank you for the reply.
Obviously not too independant though!
Can you refer to an independant review of products that would do this? I
assume you cannot be the only company doing this.
Thanks
"cristalink" wrote:
- Posted by cristalink on March 13th, 2006
Sorry, I had to be more precise. The product can expose an HDD as a virtual
tape drive. From NTBackup - the primary RSM user - point of view, there's no
big difference. NTBackup thinks it accesses tape, in fact it accesses an
HDD.
The product will not make an HDD directly appear in RSM.
Apparenly, we can, if you meant a virtual tape drive in RSM.
Cheers
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