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but can an administrator of any other computer also access this tape or does it have to be the administrator/domain with password as specified during the backup?
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but can an administrator of any other computer also access this tape or does it have to be the administrator/domain with password as specified during the backup?

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carillian<br />
Under NTBackup, only the owner of the media (ie the person that made it) and the members of the local administrators group ON THAT MACHINE can restore it.<br />
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Cheers<br />
<br />
JamesDS
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carillian
Under NTBackup, only the owner of the media (ie the person that made it) and the members of the local administrators group ON THAT MACHINE can restore it.

Cheers

JamesDS

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so how could the tape be restored to another PC/server in the future in case of failure?
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so how could the tape be restored to another PC/server in the future in case of failure?

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carillian<br />
Simply don't select the option to restrict access to owners and administrators. This is the default setting.<br />
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Cheers<br />
<br />
JamesDS
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carillian
Simply don't select the option to restrict access to owners and administrators. This is the default setting.

Cheers

JamesDS

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and then lose any security?<br />
it appears earlier versions of MS backup did indeed have a password protect option - maybe that's going to be declared as a new feature in Longhorn?!
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and then lose any security?
it appears earlier versions of MS backup did indeed have a password protect option - maybe that's going to be declared as a new feature in Longhorn?!

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carillian<br />
<br />
Security features are included in the commercial backup products. Perhaps microsoft are trying to encourage us to move to commercial products.<br />
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Cheers<br />
<br />
JamesDS
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carillian

Security features are included in the commercial backup products. Perhaps microsoft are trying to encourage us to move to commercial products.

Cheers

JamesDS

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what methods are there to secure a micrsoft backup tape?
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what methods are there to secure a micrsoft backup tape?

windows 2003 backup with password protect

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).