Must W2003 BACKUP utility use the Floppy Drive.

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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.
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Regards
Tom
 
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.
 
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.
>
>
>
 
Re: Must W2003 BACKUP utility use the Floppy Drive.

Hello ThomasAJ,

Have a look here:
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windo...25f6-468f-a857-19bc23eca2981033.mspx?mfr=true

From
http://technet2.microsoft.com/windo...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.


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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.
 
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.
 
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