Questions tagged [tape]
Tapes are used by a tape backup machine.
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Read LTO Tape ID Tag
LTO 6 Tapes contain a ID tag within the casing (I assume its RFID). Is it possible to read the tag via mt commands?
I would like to identify the tape that is currently loaded in the tape drive.
I'm ...
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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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Activate Tape Encryption on Windows Server
We use windows to make tape (LTO 8) backups with ltfs and now I want to use the hardware encryption. My problem is I can not find a way to activate it. For Linux I found "stenc" but is there something ...
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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 store ...
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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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IBM LTO4 Backups Failing
I am new to tape backup systems and recently bought a used IBM TS3100 3573-L2U library with a ULT3580-TD4 LTO4 SAS drive as well as some fujifilm tapes. I have followed this guide/HOWTO and am using ...
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tar throwing input/output error when reading from tape, but file is ok
I've written about 1.5TB of files onto a tape with
tar -b 512 -clpMvf /dev/nst0 /path_to_stuff
Everything worked well, no error messages. Now if I try to read it back from tape with
tar -b 512 -...
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Where to find infos about functions and opportunities for backup / archive systems
we are thinking about building an archive system (>1PB) to store video-files.
Probably this complex system will be assemble by different technologies and sub-systems. But one decisively point will be ...
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HP MSL2024 not auto changing tapes using Ultrabac 9.2.2
I am using Ultrabac 9.2.2 to run backup sets to a one drive HP MSL2024 tape library. It's currently connected via SAS 3Gbs to a HP Proliant DL380G6 running Server 2008 R2. I have the drivers from HP ...
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HP P212 RAID + Tape Library = Kernel Panic
I have a HP DL320e g8 v2 server running CentOS 7.1 (kernel 3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64). The onboard B120i SmartArray was disabled, and a PCI-Express P212 SAS HBA was installed with two identical 3TB ...
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Debian - Persistent tape binding
I have a problem, whenever the library is rebooted, a cartdrige is mounted, or any operation, Linux is changing path for library, making it unavailable to automate backup procesing, it is even worst ...
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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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Bareos: Bscan doesn't recover database entries (Tapes from MySQL new server Postgres Database)
I had an ubuntu server 18.04 running with bareos and mysql database.
Monthly I saved data on tapedrive and everything was working fine.
Unfortunately I had a servercrash without a backup of the dump ...
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Configure single LTO tape drive over Fiber Channel HBA
How do you set up a single tape storage drive over an FC HBA? As far as I can tell, these things are not "plug and play". The tape drive I bought is an lto-5 FC taken from a tape library.
I have ...
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System Center 2012 R2 DPM loading tapes from library out of order
I have a System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager (DPM) configured and working properly. The server has a SAS Tape Library with 24 tapes, and the DPM shows all tapes.
But when a backup to tape ...
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Unexpected EOF write error
We have a Sun Solaris 10 server that is failing to backup using tar to write to tape.
tar cEf /dev/rmt/0cn .
The complete error is
tar: write error: unexpected EOF
tar error code 2
The directory ...
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Network tape devices for backing up from server 2012 virtual machine
Are there any network attached tape devices available to allow us to get data from a server 2012 R2 VM on hyper-V backed-up onto tape?
First problem is that server 2012 doesn't support backup to tape,...
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IBM TS 3310 upgrade firmware
Am I allowed to upgrade firmware (by self) for tape library IBM TS 3310 which service support contract has been finished?
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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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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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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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AMANDA backup fails with: data read: recv error: shm_ring is cancelled
I have an AMANDA backup process running nightly. About a month ago, we pulled the config into AMANDA 1:3.5.1-build2 (ubuntu package) running on Ubuntu 18.04 (new hardware as well). In the past week ...
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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 ...