NTBACKUP Cannot Catalog and Restore Compressed Data from Tape

 Last reviewed: October 13, 1995
Article ID: Q138116
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Windows NT Workstation versions 3.5 and 3.51
  • Microsoft Windows NT Server versions 3.5 and 3.51

If you back up data to tape with Arcada Backup Exec for Windows 95 you can catalog and restore the data with Windows NT Backup (NTBACKUP.EXE). However, if you use the data compression feature of Arcada Backup Exec for Windows 95 to backup data to tape, the following error message appears in NTBACKUP.EXE when you try to catalog and restore the data with NTBACKUP.EXE: 

   This set is compressed and cannot be viewed or restored.
Windows NT Backup is a standard backup utility that does not have the additional features Arcada Backup Exec for Windows NT or Windows 95 has available, such as the software data compression. Arcada Backup Exec for Windows NT and Windows 95 use the Microsoft Tape Format (MFT) standard.

KBCategory: kbtool kb3rdparty
KBSubcategory: ntutil nt32ap
Additional reference words: prodnt 3.50 3.51

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Last reviewed: October 13, 1995
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