Tape Drives - Installation - Lab 1


DIRECTIONS: Follow the steps below. Instructor signoff: ______________________

Equipment required:

1. Install a tape backup drive.  Internal or external.
2. Install appropriate backup software.
3. Create a demonstration folder on the hard drive  with about 20MB of data in it.
4. Backup the demo directory that you created onto the tape.
5. Delete the demo directory from the hard drive. Have your instructor verify that the data is indeed gone.
6. Restore the data from the tape back to the hard drive.  Have your instructor verify that the data has been restored.