Article ID: 204833 - Last Review: February 20, 2007 - Revision: 3.2

Backup Can Select Only the First of Two Identical Tape Drives

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SUMMARY

When you have a Windows 2000-based computer with two or more identical tape devices, you cannot select the specific drive to use with Backup. You can select only the media type.

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Removable Storage Management (RSM) in Windows 2000 allows applications to use the first available drive that supports the selected media type or to specify which drive number (IE: \\.\tape#) to use. NTBackup does not support specifying the drive number. It always uses the first available drive.
APPLIES TO
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition
  • Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
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