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Russell Mickler, Principal Consultant, has over 17 years of professional experience leading and managing IT organizations.
Small Business Server – REV Drive and Backups
Written on July 3, 2006
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I recommended an Iomega REV Drive solution for a client the other day. It installed fine. When running through the SBS 2003 backup configuration under the server management console, the backup wizard didn’t allow me to target the Iomega REV Drive for backups.
This was because the o/s reports the REV Drive as a CDFS (CD ROM File System) and the wizard is programmed to deny CDFS device targets for backups.
There were two work-arounds for this. One, I could configure the backup job manually through the usual NTBackup UI and schedule the job; no problems – the UI allowed me to target the Iomega normally. The bad news is that I don’t get the native reporting from the SBS in its morning monitoring email.
The other work around was to walk through the wizard and target a local hard disk, completing the selections and scheduling through the wizard. Then, I stepped into the registry and changed the following key: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Small Business Server\BackupLocation. This is the target location stored by the wizard – I changed the key to reflect the target of the Iomega. This allows the backup to be monitored and reported on using the Iomega.