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How to use Iomega REV disk for backups

The Backup Wizard won't write to REV drives b/c IOmega set them to look like CDs, and the Wizard looks at whatever that attribute is. NT Backup looks at the drive just fine, though. Since the Wizard actually configures NT Backup, the best workaround to allow you to use the Rev with the Wizard is:

Use the wizard to configure the backup to a hard drive, then open up regedit to:

HKLM\software\microsoft\smallbusinessserver\backup and change the key
"Backup Location Path" to the Rev Drive.

-Eliot

Posted: Sun, May 16 2004 10:58 by kwsupport | with 6 comment(s)
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kwsupport said:

Hi,
I have just installed this REV drive and -
a) the key smallbusinessserver doesn't exist in SBS2000
b)under MYCOMPUTER, I cannot see this drive which is G: but can see the drive in Explorer
c)Cannot see network or mapped drives using Iomega Backup Program

Any help would be appreciated

Regards
David
# June 15, 2004 1:42 AM

kwsupport said:

There is a simple solution to the ntbackup problem without editing the registry: Share the drive and write your backup to the share.

Regards,

Jeroen
# November 1, 2004 9:47 AM

kwsupport said:

Unfortunately though without using a REV aware backup software solution you can't get any compression. Unless someone knows a trick.
# November 18, 2004 6:14 PM

kwsupport said:

Although it is not pretty, you could use a third party tool to to compress a file created with ntbackup and then copy it to the REV drive (possibly using a VBS script). The downside to this method is it would require up to 90GB of free harddrive space.
# December 14, 2004 9:29 PM

kwsupport said:

For more information on SBS and the REV drive see my post here:

http://msmvps.com/bradley/archive/2004/05/12/6318.aspx

(currently the 6th comment)
# February 25, 2005 5:01 PM

kwsupport said:

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

http://www.firestreamer.com
# August 6, 2005 6:04 PM