From: "Robert Comer" 

> Nope-becuase I had Retrospect installed and working and NT backup
> was functioning normally as well.

So it's probably not that.

> It appears it has something to do with the Removable Storage Manager.

Yuck -- I've had problems with that before but it's been a long time since
I even attempted to mess with it.

- Bob Comer


"Randy H"  wrote in message
news:3dfcb6f4{at}w3.nls.net...
>
> It appears it has something to do with the Removable Storage Manager.
>
> For giggles I'll try to uninstall/reinstall Retrospect but I'm not
hopeful.
>
> "Robert Comer"  wrote in message
> news:3dfcb1dc{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Maybe dantz's Retrospect?
> >
> > A lot of backup software uses their own tape drivers and lock the device
> for
> > their own use...
> >
> > - Bob Comer
> >
> >
> > "Randy H"  wrote in message
> > news:3dfcaa20$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > ...to make my tape drive invisible to Microsoft's tape backup, but the
> > drive
> > > shows up in the Device Manager and is fully usable by Dantz's
> Retrospect?
> > >
> > > Becuase of this I can't take any ASR snapshot backups to tape.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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