Tape Backup in few simple steps
Uranium can make tape backups with extreme ease.
Uranium Backup manages cartridges with incredible handiness: you will never need
to format them and all backup operations will be made automatically. In addition,
one of the most important feature of this backup type, is that you can restore your
cartridges content from any pc/windows os, because the program stores all backup
information directly on tape.
Uranium is compatible practically with any Tape Drive (SCSI, IDE,
USB, SAS, etc...) and with the most used types of cartridges: DAT, DDS, DLT, AIT, VXA,
SDLT, LTO, etc...
Tape backup functions are available from the
Pro Tape version.
Requirement: on Windows Vista, Windows 2008
Server and Windows 7, in order to access the tape drive it is necessary to run Uranium
as Administrator.
Now let's see below the simple steps to configure a tape backup:
1 - Create new Backup Set:
In order to create new backup set, if there aren't other backup sets created previously,
you must click on the link shown in the image, then specify a name and click the
button "Apply". If there are already other backup sets you must open the "File" menu and click the item "Create New Backup Set".
2 - Add folders and/or files to backup:
In order to add folders and files you want to backup, proceed like in the above
image: in the section "Items and Destinations" click on the link "Click here to
add...", then select the desired items and click the "OK" button.
The items will appear like in the image below:
3 - Add tape backup destination:
In the list of common destinations you must click on the link shown in the image
and select the item "Add destination to Tape .
Once you have added the destination, it will appear like in the image below:
4 - Now let's see some some important options about tape backup:
General / Advanced options
In this window the most important parameter is the interface type
with tape drives.
By default the program will use Native interface, that allows a wider compatibility
with all kinds of tape drives (usb, scsi, ide, etc...). It is however possible to
use aspi interface (for particular applications or for older versions compatibility),
specific for scsi or ide peripherals. If you want to use scsi interface you need
to download and install aspi drivers through the proper button.
Backup Set Options
In this panel we can find several important options, like the backup type (the Total
backup is always recommended), the tape drive to use (the drives can be selected
from a drop-down list depending on their symbolic name), the block size, that affect
backup speed and needed space on cartridge (the default value is good in most cases),
the possibility of compression and encryption, etc...
Leaving all options tutte to their default values, you can obtain a good result
in most cases, however it is possibile to change some parameters in order to
increase performances and data compression.
If you want to use the software compression it is recommended to leave all the
options to their default values (Advanced compression, Method 1, Normal
compression), in order to obtain both good
preformances and good space saving on tape.
Using instead the hardware compression, with some tape drive models you can
obtain a considerable performance increasing. Commonly the hardware compression
is enabled by default on most tape drives.
With some types of tape drive, like
for example LTO 3 Ultrium, you can obtain higher speed using an higher block size
value, like 64K.
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Once the backup is completed, we can already take a look to Restore functions, to
see how to recuperate files from tape:
5 - Restore:
In order to open the restore window you must simply click on the button shown
in the image below:
Once you have opened the restore window, the program reads from the tape some useful
information about backup and show these informations in a confirmation message.
User can choose if the program must create and show the list of files on
the tape:
After file list creation, in the following image we can see how to select files we want to restore:
Before proceed with restore, let's go in the panel "Options", in order to set the
restore destination folder (pay attention: if we don't set this, files will be restored
in their original position, and will overwrite existing files):
Once we have selected the restore destination folder, we can proceed to restore
files from tape by clicking the button shown in the image below:
During the restore procedure the program will show a window similar to that of backup,
with all the information about the restore progress. When the procedure will be completed,
we will find restored files in the folder we chose.
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This tutorial talks about:
- Tape backup software
-
Windows Server 2008 tape backup
- DAT, LTO 2, LTO 3, LTO 4, VXA, AIT, SCSI, ASPI, SAS,
USB, Firewire tape drives.
- Backup program compatible with
HP StorageWorks DAT 72 SCSI and USB tape drive, Sony AIT tape drives,
IBM VXA-2 tape drive, HP SureStore DLT Drives, HP StorageWorks Ultrium 3 LTO tape drives, DDS-4
tape drives - Tandberg LTO-2, LTO-3 tape backup drives, etc...
- Dell tape backup
- IBM server tape backup
- Vista tape backup and tape backup on Windows 7