Hi Srdjan,

I stopped using tape drives some years ago, went to CDs. Now I use DVDs, one day's backup is about 3.5GB, so DVDs are just perfect.

>Hi Tore,
>
>I think they will become obsolete in near future,
>with rapid development of flash drives and HQ rewritable CD's.
>We are actually planning to go for CD backup in the near future.
>
>
>>>>>Hi Jerry,
>>>>>
>>>>>You can have look at XDIR tool here in downloads.
>>>>>There is xcopy() function there implemented in pure fox,
>>>>>which can be used to backup your data anywhere you specify. (Except tape)
>>>>
>>>>Why except tape?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks.
>>>
>>>Hi Naomi,
>>>
>>>Tapes are sequential devices. They cannot be simply mapped as drives
>>>and written with regular copy commands. (At least ones we use here)
>>>In order to backup on tape you need to use some tape writing tool like
>>>MS Backup or NT backup or respective proprietory softwares.
>>
>>Actually there are a few companies who make drivers for their tape streamers which make their tape appear as a local drive. But these drivers are a real PITA, you have to be very careful if you have it installed on your local computer. If you install a new tape with data on it, your computer will busy reading the tape for several minutes.....! I installed such a driver on my computer a few years ago, and I removed it a few minutes later.