Deallocate & Prepare from DOS

[David Gray]

Hi,

Using Windows built in backup program to backup server contents to an
LTO tape drive. We have to manually deallocate & prepare the tape each
day so that the backup can run overnight.

All this runs from a batch file and I was wondering what the DOS
commands are to perform these two tasks.

* Deallocate
* Prepare

The os is Windows 2000 advanced server.

Thanks
Dave

 

[Jerold Schulman]

Hi,

Using Windows built in backup program to backup server contents to an
LTO tape drive. We have to manually deallocate & prepare the tape each
day so that the backup can run overnight.

All this runs from a batch file and I was wondering what the DOS
commands are to perform these two tasks.

* Deallocate
* Prepare

The os is Windows 2000 advanced server.

Thanks
Dave

Firstly, if you use the /UM switch, you don't have to delallocate and prepare. See tip 2265 in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsifaq.com

See tip 8967 » How do I prepare a tape for NTBackup to use?
See tip 5961 » How do I Deallocate the mounted tape in a command script?

Jerold Schulman
Windows Server MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
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