Stratesave 7.0 Organized Backup Program Help Files
Initialization of tapes and removable disks
Tapes and removable disks (not CD/DVDs) used for Stratesave must be initialized before their first use.
Tapes and removable disks are formatted with their name. If by accident a wrong tape or disk is
inserted in the drive, the mistake will be recognized by backup program.
Which tapes and removable disks have to be initialized?
New tapes and removable disks, before their first use with Stratesave.
Tapes and removable disks, whose names are changed.
Tapes, which are used for a new macro. If macro name changes, tapes have to be reinitialized.
Important: Initializing tapes and removable disks destroys data already on the media.
How to initialize tapes?
Stratesave has menu Special->Initialize tape, which leads to a dialog where you can initialize the tape.
If tape mounts are handled by Windows Removable Storage Manager (RSM), tape option Initialize
media during backup automatically when needed allows tapes to be taken from free media pool and being initialized
automatically during backup. It will not be necessary to initialize the tapes in this case.
How to initialize removable disks?
Format the removable disk either with DOS FORMAT command, or with Format utility from "My computer"/Windows Explorer.
The volume name of the disk must be the same as specified in Stratesave macro.
CDs/DVDs used with Stratesave driver engine need not be initialized.
If third-party packet Software is used to write on CD/DVD, use that Software to format the CD/DVD.
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