Tapes and removable disks 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 Standard Backup Program has a menu Special->Initialize tape, which leads to a dialog where you can initialize the tape. Please note that the Remote Backup Control does not have that entry, so the normal Stratesave Periodical Backup program must be started to initialize the tape.
If tape mounts are handled by Windows 2003/XP/2000's 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. For CD-RW and CD-R, use specialized software that comes with the CD-writer to format your CD (e.g. DirectCD, PacketCD or other).