Any way of using TIH 2010 with tape drive?

Charles Blahnik wrote:

I was recently given a SCSI tape drive. From discussion in this forum it seems that TIH 2010 cannot be used with tape drives. Is my undrstanding correct? I sent an enquiry to Acronis support more than week ago but I have not received any answer. Hopefully, someone will answer me here.

Thanks, Charles

That is correct. True Image does not support tape drives. And who would really want to back up to an incredibly slow tape drive? Yet this "might" be possible since some freeware and shareware authors years ago created programs which could make a tape drive "appear" to be another hard drive. But then the problem arises of not being able to restore from the tape drive since Startup Recovery Manager or an Acronis Bootable CD won't be able to "see" the tape drive. In any event, trying to back up a modern OS to a tape drive would take a really long time (maybe at least a day???).

Thanks for the explanation. Tape drives have some advantages and I have one free with number of tapes. I guess I will either have buy the Acronis Backup & Restore 10 workstation (ouch! it is $74 in addition to the recent upgrade cost to TIH 2010) or go for some other software that offers a range of storage devices including the tape at considerably lower price. I have been with Acronis for years but this may be the time to change. The product is getting expensive, and I have not yet received any response to my email enquiry to support (i.e., the support is not responsive). By the way, I intend to use both the HD storage (which I have now) as well as the tape storage for different aspects of backup. The tape is more flexible for disaster recovery (with the tapes I was given, I can keep weekly images for more than 1/2 year). One day recovery is OK for disasters.