the server is installed with windows 2008 R2 standard 64bit on the c drive and the 'd' drive is software raid to raid5 and the sql server is installed on to the 'D' drive. when i try to backup the database to tape (that is connected to the server (SCSI connection)). the tape option is greyed out. could you please advice.. Thanks George

Hi George, Please discuss this issue in our SQL Server forum: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/category/sqlserver/ Tim Quan