Mark,
I was testing HP's Ultrium 230 External tape drive on a Compaq Proliant
server. The local OS recognized the drive and I could do a local backup and
restore using NT Backup (Just testing of course!). We have another single
external IBM LTO connected to our TSM server (AIX). What I wanted was the
ability to create a backset at the server to the locally attached LTO drive.
Then I could take this portable media to an NT server with a locally
attached LTO drive and using the TSM Windows client perform a restore from
the Locally attached LTO drive. But appears that the new LTO drives are not
a supported Tape device for performing this task, here is an excerpt from
the 4.1.2.12 docs.


The backup set is usually stored on media like tape, CD-ROMs, JAZ disks, or
ZIP disks. These tape devices are supported: DLT, 4mm, 8mm, 3590, and 3570.



Bruce E. Lowrie
Sr. Systems Analyst
Global Information Technology Services
Storage, Output, Legacy
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