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Excellent tip. Running a backup right now.

Now that I am re-using drives from last week, how do I set it to automatically over-write the old backup file (I know how to do this using the standard NT Backup utility)... otherwise this is a great way to backup!

Tip doesn't work, whem i want to start a backup sbs 2003 crashes.

I see a lot of posts pointing to this site, but I see some confusion out there regarding the whole solution, so here is a few things to note:

1) For those complaining that "HKLM\software\microsoft\smallbusinessserver\backup" is missing from their SBS 2003 Install....Run the Backup Configuration Wizard from inside the SBS console and stop using NTBACKUP. SBS 2003 = Run the Wizards!!!

2) SBS2003/NTBackup will NOT do compression on REV disks, however the YOSEMITE Tapeware that comes with the REV USB KIT does (software compression anyways). And it will use the REV as a Tape, NOT as a Drive, the only drawback to that is that you can't browse it in explorer after it reformats it. If only Iomega would make a Tape driver like Yosemite did we'd be all set, and maybe add some hardware compression.

3) So why not skip the Backup Configuration Wizard and just use Tapeware? After all compression is a big plus! Because Tapeware won't use Shadow Copy or backup SBS (Exchange/SQL) correctly without purchasing expensive upgrades.

So here is the cheapest most feature rich solution I can see right now with the REV drive, at least with the USB Kit:

If you've got the space, use the Backup Configuration Wizard to backup to the Hard Drive, or to save some space just backup the critical system stuff, SBS (Exchange/SQL), and any files that may be open/locked (Shadow Copy Rocks!). Do this to one file that gets overwritten every time.

Then use Yosemite Tapeware to backup that file, and any others you left out of the first backup to save space. Just schedule it a few hours (or enough time) after the Backup Configuration Wizard and have it use compression.

It's a bit round about, but you basically get a fast cheap DLT drive, that also lets you use it as an external hard drive, although not with the same cartridges you use for the above process. I certainly didn't see 2.6:1 compression like they claim, or even 2:1, but I'm sure you'll squeeze another 10-15 Gig out of a cartridge which makes the whole process worth it for me. Unfortunately you lose some hard drive space in the backup file, it may take some extra time to do two backups and software compression is a bit slow. However apparently it is possible to tweak the Iomega settings in the Control Panel and increase the REV drive's speed, I haven’t tested this yet.

Firestreamer-RM allows NTBackup to write directly to REV with compression, encryption, media spanning etc.

http://www.firestreamer.com