Third-Party Backup Utilities
The Windows NT backup utilities suffer from serious deficiencies in their tape drive support, scheduling capabilities, and other features. However, Windows Server 2003 has a backup program that provides all the essential functions required by a network backup program and a few extras as well. (Of course, there’s always room for improvement.)
One of the shortcomings of the Windows Server 2003 Backup program is that because the backup set catalogs are stored on the backup media themselves, you can’t tell whether a particular file is on a tape without loading it so that the program can read the catalog. Some third-party backup products store the catalog information in a database on the local drive, enabling you to search ...
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