the OBDR system should cause the scsi tape drive to boot from the tape and restore enough to get the system rebooted. I'd check www.hp.com for more info, but basically the process is simply to hold down the eject button whilst powering the system on. the catch is that the tape must be written as a OBDR tape using HP's software, I believe. If you can get hold of Norton Ghost & put it on a DOS boot floppy, Ghost will write a disk image to scsi tape. Booting from the floppy & running Ghost then allows you to restore the disk image in one go. On Wednesday, March 01, 2000 3:16 AM, Christopher T. Beers [SMTP:cbeers@bu.edu] wrote:
All: I have acquired a tape device which is a HP SureStore DAT8e (external). I have verified that it is working and that I can tar files to my tape device. However, I was wondering if anyone has used software that allows you to restore your system without first loading an OS. My device uses a technology called OBDR (One Button Disaster Recovery), but I am not sure what software I could get that allows me to use this. Any help and pointers would be greatly appreciated.
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