Tapes are used by a tape backup machine.
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Encrypt backups with GPG to multiple tapes
Currently, I use tar to write my backups (ntbackup files) to a tape drive fed by an autoloader.
Ex:
tar -F /root/advancetape -cvf /dev/st0 *.bkf
(/root/advancetape just has the logic to advance to ...
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tape changers on Centos 6 enter flurry of activity upon boot, at udev start
I have two tape-changer robots (Quantum Superloader 3), one with parallel SCSI connectivity, the other with SAS. They were connected to a Centos 5 server, and boot would proceed normally.
They are ...
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How can I check the contents of a backup tape on Windows Server 2003
I have a tape that was backed up long time ago, probably 5-6y, on a Windows Server 2003. Now I have a situation that I want to check up what was backed up on that tape back then. The backup wasn't ...
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Linux LTO-4/5 Drive Encryption
For a number of reasons I have been trying to find a way to encrypt my backup tapes. I'm currently running Bacula for my backups and it's support for Drive based encryption is I have to call a script ...
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StorageTek SL500 Serial Number from Netbackup
I have a Sun StorageTek SL500 tape library that I need to put in a service call, but don't have the serial number handy. Does anyone know if it is possible to get the serial number for the library ...
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BackupExec 10d crashing 2k3 server
There are two weeks now since I'm doing repository-like backup, because BE10d is crashing the file server.
The computer is a NEC Express 5800, 2xXeon, 1 GB RAM, 4 SCSI drives in RAID 5 w/ spare, one ...
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arcserve brightstor 11 next tape email
Is there anyway of getting brightstor 11 to email out to a group of users when a new tape is required for a backup job (ie when the backup on a particular day spans over multiple tapes). At the moment ...
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Hard Disk based storage library
We have a Tandberg T24 tape device to handle all of our long term backups right now. We decided that we're not backing up nearly everything that we would like to and that we still have a lot of ...
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To Delete a tape from the ACSLSlibrary
Hi Anyone there can help me out for an issue as below:
There was a stuck tape in the drive and so the stuck tape was removed, but i need to logically delete the tape entry from NB, so that the same ...
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File system that mounts a set of exchangeable media as single file system and handles media changes transparently
I'd like to build a DVD library (probably later to become a tape library) with a home-built robot that moves media between a store area (i.e. the 'shelves' where the physical DVDs are kept) and the ...
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Accessing tapes at the Windows Server 2008 R2 with NTBackup backups
Does anyone know any solution how to access tapes at the Windows Server 2008 R2, tapes written with NTBackup from earlier Windows versions ???
I appreciate free or low cost solution to access such ...
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Tape Drive Backups
Not sure if this falls in the ServerFault category, but I need to spec up a Tape Drive Backup Machine and I am not sure in regards of the technology and how Dat Drives are compared. Can someone give ...
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LTO3 tape read only on a LTO3 tape driver (write lock unlocked)
I've installed on win2003 a tape drive (IBM 25R0012) with the latest drivers available
The tape is functioning correctly (according to the "Device Manager"), however when I insert a new tape (i use ...
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Backing up VMs to a tape drive
I've got myself one of these fancy tape drives, HP LTO2 with 200/400 GB cartridges.
The st driver reports it like this:
scsi 1:0:0:0: Sequential-Access HP Ultrium 2-SCSI T65D
I can ...
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Tape restore giving error incorrect block size - Win2k8
I'm trying to restore from tape and I am getting an error of incorrect block size. The software I used to backup is called BackupAssist and their support hasnt been the greatest. One weird thing I ...
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GF-F-S backup rotation and monthly media
I've taken over the backup handling of a system that previously was kind of a mess. The strategy is a pretty standard Grandfather-Father-Son rotation using a Hp StorageWorks MSL2024 TapeLibrary with ...
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How get the label of the currently inserted tape?
I would like to design a debug script that outputs the Bacula's label of the tape currently inserted in the tape loaders and to send the result into Opsview if required. should those be mounted or ...
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tar files sorted by size to a tape
I'm configuring a tape backup of some directories and i'm wondering if it could be a good idea to store them sorted by size.
My idea is if I have to restore some file and the file are save ...
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How do I untar multiple archives from tape?
I have a tape with multiple tar files on it. I do not know how many (it was created by a third party and sent to me with minimal information). How do I untar all the files without having to repeat the ...
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Powervault 122T can not use DLT-IV tapes from PowerVault 110
I have one old PowerVault 110T drive with bunch of tapes for my personal backups and its working fine. On a local ebay-like site I saw a PowerValut 122t VS80 for a very nice price. I thought it will ...
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Ubuntu - create a persistent tape library rule for udev
I have Overland NEO400s tape library attached via SCSI adapter to Ubuntu Lucid 10.04.4 64-bit backup server. Every time I reboot the server the library gets different device ID. So, I have to start ...
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Backup Exec 2010 R2 - Display Messages To Be Acknowledged
In Backup Exec 2010 R2, a mistake set a message acknowledgement for tape media rotation to be delayed for 1 day instead of 1 hour. Is it possible to force Backup Exec to re-display the message so ...
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boot IBM p series 650 from 3580-L23 LTO-2 tape
We have a p series 650 that has a dds4 tape drive built-in. In the past, recover has been as simple as putting a mksysb tape into the drive and booting the machine. During boot, the machine detects ...
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Restore from multiple tapes with dump/restore commands
We have an autoloader tape drive with 24 tapes, and a backup script that uses the dump command to write the backup to tape. When the end of the tape is reached it uses dump -f to run a script that ...
