INFO: Supporting Proprietary & Multiple Drivers with Stand Alone (Recovery) Floppies

UBQ ID Number: UBQ000026

Last Modified: 2007-03-19 13:11:28

SUMMARY:

DETAILS:

The third boot floppy of the Disaster Recovery disks contains information regarding system and device drivers for such things as SCSI and IDE cards, and tape devices. The standard tape device drivers that it has are: 4mmdat.sys, dlttape.sys, exabyte2.sys, qic157.sys, and miniqic.sys. The standard SCSI device drivers that it has are: aha154x, aya174x, aic78xx, ultra14f, and ultra24f

If you are using a tape device that uses an NT standard device driver, then you do not have to specify, or otherwise worry about the tape device driver being on the boot disk. If you are using a tape device that is not listed above, then you would need to copy the tape device driver that your tape device uses onto the third boot floppy disk, and rename it to replace one of the above listed device drivers that you are not using. You may also rename it to nttapedd.sys, if you are using these boot floppies for multiple Image setups, and you do not wish to overwrite any of the standard device drivers.

The 3rd diskette should have a file called nttapedd.sys, which should be the same file as the tape device that you specified in the mkdisks.bat file. You might want to compare the file to the one that is on the original computer \%systemroot%\system32\drivers\xxxx.sys (where xxxx.sys is the tape device driver for the tape device used). If \%systemroot%\system32\drivers\xxxx.sys doesn't exist go into control panel\devices and find the tape device that way then copy it onto the third diskette overwriting nttapedd.sys and try again.

You can do multiple image backups on 1 tape, but you have to do it within the GUI of UltraBac, or using the scheduled backup function. The free Stand Alone Disaster Recovery option where you boot off floppies to back up cannot back up multiple Images onto the same tape.

NOTE: It is suggested that you always make an image backup the 1st set(s) in a group of backups. This way the image backup will be found immediately. If you put file-by-file backups first, then you will have to wait as the tape scans through the tape to find the image.

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COPY %systemroot%\system32\drivers\exabyte2.sys a:

Where a: is the 3rd diskette. You may need to make sure tape.sys is not corrupt on the 3rd diskette.

COPY %systemroot%\system32\drivers\tape.sys a:

Where a: is the 3rd diskette.

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NOTE: The "MakeDisk.exe" utility, which provides for the creation of the SADR diskettes, will not be included in UltraBac 6.3 and above, in favor of the UltraBac Disaster Recovery (UBDR) utility.
See User Manual: UBDR: UltraBac Disaster Recovery

MORE INFORMATION:

See UBQ: UBQ000024 – What is an Image Backup?

See UBQ: UBQ000027 – Restoring Individual Files from an Image Backup

See UBQ: UBQ000028 – PCMCIA SCSI Controllers and Disaster Recovery

See UBQ: UBQ000051 – Defining an Image Storage Device

See UBQ: UBQ000052 – Defining a Partition Storage Device

See UBQ: UBQ000057 – Creating SADR (Stand Alone Disaster Recovery) Floppies - Intel & Alpha

See UBQ: UBQ000059 – Integrated GUI Image Recovery (Non-Boot Disk)

See UBQ: UBQ000060 – Static Mirror Image Recovery

See UBQ: UBQ000152 – Creating SADR Floppies for the Free SADR Utility - Intel

See UBQ: UBQ000155 - Creating SADR Floppies for the Free SADR Utility - Alpha

See UBQ: UBQ000153 – Partition Image Restores using SADR