external firewire drive as target?

[holmes]

We are a small office running Windows Server 2003 on a Dell PowerEdge 1800 (Intel Xeon 3.0GHz, 136GB HD - PERCRAID SCSI; 4 GB RAM.  Until now, we've backed up shared files from the server HD to a DAT72 tape drive, using BackUpExec 11D. The tape drive has become nonfunctional. Dell has replaced it 4 times, and each one has failed within 60 days. The full back up is slightly less than 100 GB. Rather than back up to tape, can I use external firewire drives (much cheaper than tape drives and tape)? I'd like to buy two 200GB drives, and swap at the end of each week. Can this be done, and how?

[Ken_Putnam]

Certainly

Reserve a drive letter for each drive (you can remove drives, but not swap drives).

Create a B2D folder on each disk, and make sure that you mount the drive on the same letter each time it is connected (use Disk Manager to assign a drive letter to do this)

put both B2D folders in a Drive pool, and point your job at that pool

When you swap drives, pause/unpause the folders to refresh the BackupExec device list