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Questions tagged [lto-3]

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Need to read LTO-3 tapes on a PC

I need to read Imation LTO-3 tapes on a PC, because we have to read too many of them and our server is busy (reading LT03 tapes). What would I need to accomplish that? Do I need an special SCSI card? Could I use RedHat or Windows 2008 on PC? It…
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Ultrium DT3 - Amber warning light and Red 3 on LED

Dell PowerEdge 2900 with IBM Ultrium DTO III installed. Tape drive ejects and accepts tapes and backup software successfully writes to tape but I have a red 3 on the LED of the tape unit and a flashing amber light. I have tried the online support…
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Tape always return zeros from files but with good length

I have a IBM LTO-3 ULT3580-TD3. When I try write something to tape always it returns only zeros but with good length (/size). # dd if=/media/test1 of=/dev/nst0 bs=64k # dd if=/dev/nst0 of=/media/test2 bs=64k # ls -l /media/test* -rw-r--r-- 1 root…
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LTO-3 usable capacity is half native size

I have a Dell Powervault 114T with an IBM Ultrium 3 drive (SCSI) drive, and I have a batch of tapes that I can only write 210GB to. I did get the tapes from eBay, so I guess it isn't that surprising if they are all junk. The entire batch are…
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Directly reading a LTO tape drive

On our server (M$ 2003) is it possible to directly read our LTO 4 tape drive and copy the entire ntbackup created bkf file on it to an external hard disk? (Is the tape backup even stored on a tape as a bkf file, I’m going off when we only used…
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LTO3 tape volume appears to be smaller than 800GB

I am using BackupExec and it is asking for second tape. I am using LTO-3 ultrium 800 gig 2:1 compression tapes and it stops and asks for secound tape at 558,916,035,547 Byte count. Is my setup wrong or do i just need to get larger tapes?
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Is there a way to configure a job in Backup Exec 12.5 to eject a tape at a certain time no matter what

I know I can have a backup job eject a tape after a job completes. I have Differentials going to a single tape mulitple days per week. Is there any way to create a job just to eject a tape without writing new data or is my only option to create a…
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