{"id":85,"date":"2009-05-11T21:55:04","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T21:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/support\/disk-to-disk-to-tape-backup-d2d2t-in-backupassist\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T00:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T00:46:08","slug":"disk-to-disk-to-tape-backup-d2d2t-in-backupassist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-to-disk-to-tape-backup-d2d2t-in-backupassist","title":{"rendered":"Disk to disk to tape backup (D2D2T) in BackupAssist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Please Note:<\/strong> This option is no longer supported by BackupAssist. For a more up-to-date article on Tape Backups, please refer to this recent article:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/outshining-modern-tech-the-unexpected-power-of-tape-backup-solutions\">Outshining Modern Tech: The Unexpected Power of Tape Backup Solutions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Hi all,<\/p>\n<p>I was asked recently if Disk-to-disk-to-tape backup was possible in BackupAssist.<\/p>\n<p>The answer is YES, if your tape drive sits on a Windows 2003, XP or 2000 machine. Note: Our support for tape drives in Server 2008 is still in development, and is due out in July.<\/p>\n<p>There are two main scenarios for this:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Replicate your file system to disk on a dedicated backup server, and then to tape (tape drive is installed on the backup server) &#8211; you can even backup multiple servers to the one backup server, then take those backups to tape.<\/li>\n<li>Replicate to disk on the same server, and then to tape (tape drive installed on same server)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>In both situations, the setup is the same:<\/p>\n<h3>On each of your source servers<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Set up a &#8220;File Replication&#8221; backup job in BackupAssist. Choose your destination device (for same server D2D2T, it will be a local or external hard drive; for backup server D2D2T choose a NAS \/ network location). Select the &#8220;Mirror&#8221; scheme, so that your destination will be a mirror of the source. Select your files and folders to replicate, and complete the wizard.<\/li>\n<li>If you are also backing up VSS aware applications (eg. Exchange 2003\/7, SQL 2005\/8), go to the &#8220;Open files&#8221; tab and check the checkbox to enable VSS writer support. This means that your applications will be in a consistent state when backed up.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>On your server with the tape drive installed<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Set up a &#8220;NTBackup&#8221; job in BackupAssist. Then choose the Tape Drive destination, choose your media rotation strategy, select the paths to backup, and complete the wizard.<\/li>\n<li>Modify the job run time to give the File Replication job(s) plenty of time to complete before the Tape job starts.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Licensing requirements<\/h3>\n<p>This setup requires one BackupAssist license per source server, and also one on the server with the tape drive.<\/p>\n<p>If you are performing the D2D2T on the one server, then only one license is required.<\/p>\n<h3>Recommended scenarios<\/h3>\n<p>We recommend this strategy when your primary concern is backing up and protection data &#8211; that is, files and folders, and VSS aware applications.<\/p>\n<p>The BackupAssist File Replication Engine will not backup System State in the way that NTBackup.exe or wbadmin.exe will &#8211; so if you need to protect the System State, you will need to set up a different job to do this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please Note: This option is no longer supported by BackupAssist. For a more up-to-date article on Tape Backups, please refer to this recent article: Outshining Modern Tech: The Unexpected Power of Tape Backup Solutions. Hi all, I was asked recently if Disk-to-disk-to-tape backup was possible in BackupAssist. The answer is YES, if your tape drive &#8230; <a title=\"Disk to disk to tape backup (D2D2T) in BackupAssist\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-to-disk-to-tape-backup-d2d2t-in-backupassist\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Disk to disk to tape backup (D2D2T) in BackupAssist<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,760],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-support","category-legacy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Disk to disk to tape backup (D2D2T) in BackupAssist - Cyber Resilience Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.backupassist.com\/blog\/disk-to-disk-to-tape-backup-d2d2t-in-backupassist\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Disk to disk to tape backup (D2D2T) in BackupAssist - Cyber Resilience Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Please Note: This option is no longer supported by BackupAssist. 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