GrandBackup, will it back up to anything: Travan 4, Colorado Backup II 8G, QIC, DLT, HD Storage, CD-Rewritable, CD-Recordable, DVD-R/RW, what else?
GrandBackup offers an on-line backup of the files in standard format, conventional backup programs create an off-line backup in a proprietary format. When the backup is on-line, the backed up copies of your files are as accessible to you as the original files. When a backup is off-line, you have to go through some kind of restore procedure to make the backed up files accessible again. Disk drives are on-line and tape drives are off-line. GrandBackup supports any type of data storage device that can be connected to Windows and mapped as a drive letter (for example “Y:”) (hard disk, floppy disk, network drive, removable hard disks, CD-R/RW etc.), but not a tape drive. Having said that, some tape drive manufacturers supply a special device driver that makes the tape operate like an on-line HDD drive. We have some customers using GrandBackup with such devices. We have not done any testing with these.
