Start > Settings > Control Panel >� Devices Tab > Detect. If your device is not detected, it can be manually installed on the Drivers tab.

� Windows NT Tape Backup Limitations

• Windows NT only supports backing up to tape. To backup to floppy or other media, you must use "backup" and "xcopy" commands
• If you want to backup the Directory Database for domain: tape drive must be located on a domain controller
• You cannot backup or restore registry or event log on remote computers. NT can only backup and restore the registry or event logs on the computer where the tape drive is installed.
• If files are in use, NT backs up only the last saved version. NT OS files is exception, they can be backed up while in use.
• Backup is not intended for volume recovery� - it cannot restore the boot partition
• Does NOT have native scheduling built in. You must use WIN AT, Command Scheduler (NT RK) or Task Scheduler (new task scheduler downloadable with IE 4.x and included in Windows 98 - will be in NT 5) FYI: so far I have found that Task Scheduler (downloadable with IE 4 is totally unreliable and fails everytime SP3 is reinstalled and/or a new program is installed).

Backup Local Registry? This option is available only if you have selected at least one other file. You cannot back up ONLY the Registry

Have the backup files and directories and the restore files and directories right by default (overrides file and directory permissions)

• Administrators
• Server Operators
• Backup Operators (they can't manage server's remotely. Understand the implications of this)
• *All users can backup and restore files with Read permission (this does not mean tape backup)

� For security: do not have the same people backing up and restoring. Divide the responsibility. Prevents User from restoring NTFS to a FAT partition and effectively removing security.

If you restore files to a computer that does not have the same user and group accounts as the computer where the files originated, do not restore the permissions. The files will inherit the permissions of the folder to which they are restored." Same as moving NTFS permissions, compressed files to a directory on a different partition

� Types

• Normal / Full (selects and marks files as being backed up)
• Incremental (marks only files changed since last Full or incremental back).
• Full / Incremental Combination - restoration means restoring the Normal and then each incremental to the present date
• Differential (does not mark files as being backed up) - gets files changed since last normal or incremental
• Full / Differential Combination - restoration means only the last Full and the last differential. Best way to go as only two tapes will be required for any restore.
• Copy (does not mark) -
• Daily Copy - (does not mark) - err ... "good to take work home" ... uh .. yea

If last tape in family set is missing or damaged, you can force NT to treat data on each remaining tape as a single unit, by starting NT backup at command prompt with "/missingtape" switch.

� Learning the Lingo

• backup set: group of files or folders on a single volume from single backup operation
• family set: if single backup operation requires multiple tapes. It is the group of tapes
• catalog: graphical representation of backup
• tape: all back up sets on tape
• Backup log: BACKUP.LOG in the \systemroot folder.

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