Iomega Rev Drive and backing up a PowerEdge 2550 using Norton Ghost v.9

bump...anyone?

There is no such thing as booting from an Iomega drive on the 2550.

If you use Raid you must have MSDOS raid drivers to "see" the containers to make images of them and then also have a DOS diskette or EL TORITO CD BOOT that has USB drivers for the "IOMEGA" or other devices to "see" them as drives.

sounds rather complicated then, and my aim is to be able to do an image of the system state with the file system as a whole to the iomega tape.

I am not familiar with the Iomega solution.

http://www3.ca.com/Solutions/Overview.asp?ID=2739&TYPE=S

ARCSERV which I think is now Computer Associates Britghtstor had a system Image disaster recovery setup to tape whammy jammy at one time.

The BrightStor® ARCserve® Backup Disaster Recovery Option provides quick and simple restoration of a downed server, without the need for reinstalling the operating system or BrightStor ARCserve Backup.

The BrightStor® ARCserve® Backup Disaster Recovery Option for Windows provides remote and local disaster recovery. It supports one-button disaster recovery (bootable tape), as well as CD- and disk-based disaster recovery in Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 environments.

The BrightStor® ARCserve® Backup Disaster Recovery Option for NetWare supports disk-, CD- and bootable tape-based disaster recovery to similar and different hardware in Novell NetWare environments.

The BrightStor® ARCserve® Backup Disaster Recovery Option for UNIX supports disk- and bootable tape-based disaster recovery in Sun Solaris environments.

The BrightStor® ARCserve® Backup Disaster Recovery Option for Linux is free and available via download from the CA support website. It provides local disaster recovery for Linux environments.