Must W2003 BACKUP utility use the Floppy Drive.

[Guest ThomasAJ]

It seems the floppy drive A is not working.

 

I get "No ID address mark was found on the floppy disk" whenever I put a

floppy in. This problem was discovered when I did a FULL BACKUP using the

BACKUP utiliyt in W2003.

 

So, does BACKUP have to use the floppy or can it write its files to CD.

OR is there a good backup utility on the market that does not cost $1000

just becasue it's used on a server. (the server is a very simple setup and

has 5 users on 1 app thru Terminal Services).

 

I am loath to open the guts of the server and install another floppy - or am

I being too cautious?

OR

Is there a setting on W2003 to tell it to use the floppy or something like

that.

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Regards

Tom

[Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Re: Must W2003 BACKUP utility use the Floppy Drive.

 

ThomasAJ <ThomasAJ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> It seems the floppy drive A is not working.

>

> I get "No ID address mark was found on the floppy disk" whenever I

> put a floppy in. This problem was discovered when I did a FULL BACKUP

> using the BACKUP utiliyt in W2003.

>

> So, does BACKUP have to use the floppy or can it write its files to

> CD.

> OR is there a good backup utility on the market that does not cost

> $1000 just becasue it's used on a server. (the server is a very

> simple setup and has 5 users on 1 app thru Terminal Services).

>

> I am loath to open the guts of the server and install another floppy

> - or am I being too cautious?

> OR

> Is there a setting on W2003 to tell it to use the floppy or something

> like that.

 

I've never seen NTBackup insist on a floppy - many servers don't have floppy

drives nowadays. Not sure why you're putting a floppy in there - you most

certainly can't run a server backup to one.

 

You can get a few inexpensive USB or eSATA drives to do backups if you

can't swing a tape drive.

[Guest ThomasAJ]

Re: Must W2003 BACKUP utility use the Floppy Drive.

 

After the full system backup to say an external hard drive the Backup utility

writes asr.sif, asrpnp.sif and setup.log to a floppy which is used by the

Automatic System Recovery.

--

Regards

Tom

 

 

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote:

> ThomasAJ <ThomasAJ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> > It seems the floppy drive A is not working.

> >

> > I get "No ID address mark was found on the floppy disk" whenever I

> > put a floppy in. This problem was discovered when I did a FULL BACKUP

> > using the BACKUP utiliyt in W2003.

> >

> > So, does BACKUP have to use the floppy or can it write its files to

> > CD.

> > OR is there a good backup utility on the market that does not cost

> > $1000 just becasue it's used on a server. (the server is a very

> > simple setup and has 5 users on 1 app thru Terminal Services).

> >

> > I am loath to open the guts of the server and install another floppy

> > - or am I being too cautious?

> > OR

> > Is there a setting on W2003 to tell it to use the floppy or something

> > like that.

>

> I've never seen NTBackup insist on a floppy - many servers don't have floppy

> drives nowadays. Not sure why you're putting a floppy in there - you most

> certainly can't run a server backup to one.

>

> You can get a few inexpensive USB or eSATA drives to do backups if you

> can't swing a tape drive.

>

>

>

[Guest Meinolf Weber]

Re: Must W2003 BACKUP utility use the Floppy Drive.

 

Hello ThomasAJ,

 

Have a look here:

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/4586ec82-25f6-468f-a857-19bc23eca2981033.mspx?mfr=true

 

From

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/7b4f0436-cc90-4b52-b6ab-064f9db8d2721033.mspx?mfr=true

 

You normally access the ASR state file (Asr.sif) through a local floppy disk

drive. If the computer does not have a floppy disk drive, or you want to

perform an ASR restore over a network or remotely, you can use a Remote Installation

Services (RIS) server to fully automate the ASR process. RIS uses Pre-boot

eXecution Environment (PXE) technology to enable client computers without

an operating system to boot remotely to a RIS server that performs installation

of a supported operating system over a TCP/IP network connection. Consequently,

the remote installation client computer must have a PXE-enabled network adapter.

 

 

Best regards

 

Meinolf Weber

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> It seems the floppy drive A is not working.

>

> I get "No ID address mark was found on the floppy disk" whenever I put

> a floppy in. This problem was discovered when I did a FULL BACKUP

> using the BACKUP utiliyt in W2003.

>

> So, does BACKUP have to use the floppy or can it write its files to

> CD.

> OR is there a good backup utility on the market that does not cost

> $1000

> just becasue it's used on a server. (the server is a very simple setup

> and

> has 5 users on 1 app thru Terminal Services).

> I am loath to open the guts of the server and install another floppy -

> or am

> I being too cautious?

> OR

> Is there a setting on W2003 to tell it to use the floppy or something

> like

> that.

[Guest Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Re: Must W2003 BACKUP utility use the Floppy Drive.

 

ThomasAJ <ThomasAJ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> After the full system backup to say an external hard drive the Backup

> utility writes asr.sif, asrpnp.sif and setup.log to a floppy which is

> used by the Automatic System Recovery.

 

No...that doesn't happen if you haven't told the system to run an ASR

backup.

See Meinolf's reply for more info.

>

>> ThomasAJ <ThomasAJ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>>> It seems the floppy drive A is not working.

>>>

>>> I get "No ID address mark was found on the floppy disk" whenever I

>>> put a floppy in. This problem was discovered when I did a FULL

>>> BACKUP using the BACKUP utiliyt in W2003.

>>>

>>> So, does BACKUP have to use the floppy or can it write its files to

>>> CD.

>>> OR is there a good backup utility on the market that does not cost

>>> $1000 just becasue it's used on a server. (the server is a very

>>> simple setup and has 5 users on 1 app thru Terminal Services).

>>>

>>> I am loath to open the guts of the server and install another floppy

>>> - or am I being too cautious?

>>> OR

>>> Is there a setting on W2003 to tell it to use the floppy or

>>> something like that.

>>

>> I've never seen NTBackup insist on a floppy - many servers don't

>> have floppy drives nowadays. Not sure why you're putting a floppy in

>> there - you most certainly can't run a server backup to one.

>>

>> You can get a few inexpensive USB or eSATA drives to do backups if

>> you can't swing a tape drive.