Thank you -

I won't use the Starwind iSCSI initiator -

Charley

Some interesting things to report - First the good news - I was able to confirm that the server with the tape drive attached is fully functional and able to read and write tapes using a trial edition of Backup Exec 2012. It took me quite a while to nail this down as I had to use the generic microsof...

I sent the logs in last night - I verified that the tape drive works with a local install of Backup Exec (on the server with the tape drive) and will configure/test it on the remote server later today.

Charley

I have downloaded a trial copy of backup exec and will try to get that working today.

Where are the logs located - I am using the test build you referenced in the earlier posting. I will send them to the email address noted.

Charley

I would be happy to send the logs - where are there and where should I send them?

I am not sure I want to switch to a different back solution at this time - I have a fair number of tapes in the archive. However I can probably try something else to see if it's an issue with Retrospect.

Charley

Hi Anton - Partial Succes. I tried a number of different options/settings with the MS iSCSI initiator and was not successful. I tried mounting the tape and changer as one device and then separately. I reset the SCSI bus on the tape changer to SCSI ID 0 - so both the servers had the same mappings (Bu...

Thanks for the update! I will try it this weekend and let you know.

Charley

Hi Anton,

Have you had a chance to look into this?

Charley

Thanks!

On source Windows 2008 R2 server: From Properties in the device manager Tape Drive shows as Tape drives -> Quantum LTO 3 Tape Drive -> Bus Number 0, Target Id 5, LUN 0 Medium Changer devices -> Quantum Superloader -> Bus Number 0, Target Id 5, LUN 1 On destination Windows SBS 2011 server Tape drives...

Thanks for the quick response - I get exactly the same behavior with the MS iSCSI initiator.

Thanks for the very quick response!

Charley

Hi! I have a quantum autoloader (Superloader3) attached to a physical Windows 2008 R2 server. I was able to install and use the tape redirector to export my autoloader and tape drive (they show up as two separate scsi devices). I installed the iSCSI initiator on a virtualized Windows server. I was a...