From: "Joe Barr" 

http://www.crn.com/Components/printArticle.asp?ArticleID=42072

By Paula Rooney & Steven Burke
CRN
Waltham, Mass.
5:55 PM EST Mon., May 19, 2003

A solution provider has discovered an incompatibility between Windows
Server 2003's new backup features and Windows XP.

Terabyte Computers, Boone, N.C., is recommending that its customers hold
off on deploying Windows Server 2003 because of problems restoring data
from a backup tape created on Windows Server 2003 to Windows XP and,
potentially, Windows 2000 Pro and Windows 2000 server.

The solution provider has developed a workaround for the problem but is
awaiting a fix from Microsoft before rolling out Windows Server 2003, which
shipped late last month. "My concern here is that a company may deploy
2003 Server and assume they can restore data on a 2000 Server or XP Pro box
should the 2003 server fail. This is currently not the case," said
Brian Bergin, president of Terabyte Computers. "This pretty much
affects anyone using 2003 Server who may ever need to restore data to a
XP/2000 system."

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