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Questions tagged [lto-4]

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Linux LTO-4/5/6 Hardware AES 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 or something to set the key in the drive. How…
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writing LTO-3 tapes with a LTO-4 drive

Apparently LTO-4 drives can both read and write LTO-3 tapes. Are these tapes fully compatible with LTO-3 drives? I'm interested in real life experience more than theoretical vendor-touted compatibility :)
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What LTO 4 drive to buy

Evan Anderson mentioned in another solution you could buy a LTO-4 (autoloader, 1 tape / day) - $4,566.00 (the discussion included total cost of tapes for a specific rotation.) but I don't know specifics on what he or you would recommend for the…
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Slow LTO4 tape drive

EDIT UPDATE: for others seeing this thread. For me the issue was the scsi card itself for some reason. I replaced the Adaptec with an LSI and it works great now Regardless of if I'm backing up the local server or a "disk-disk-tape" the speed…
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LTO-4 Tape Write Source Throughput Needs

I am looking to begin a tape backup regimen and am looking to keep data flowing to the tape drive in a sufficient manner (120+MBs target sustained) but cannot figure out how to do so without a dedicated source drive/array that idles when not writing…
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LTO-4 Tape Physical Storage

We have moved to an LTO-4 tape backup system. It works great and now we have a stack of physical tapes lying around that need to be stored and ultimately secured. I was curious what options exist for storage containers that will not cause harm to…
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Odd problem with Backup Exec - 427 GB of Data filling an 800 Gig Tape

We are currently trying to diagnose an ongoing issue with a clients backup in Backup Exec. They have an LTO4 Drive that they are backing up to. When they backup it fills the tape (which has a capacity of 800 GB), even though it is only 427 GB of…
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LTO-4 tape shelf life estimation?

LTO tapes, Maxell in this case, are often marketed as having 30 years or more shelf life when stored under "optimal conditions" Is there a way to get a good estimation to the shelf life, given parameters such as relative humidity and temperature…
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Quantum LTO-4 Drive fails with new tapes and need to be cleaned too often

I have a Quantum LTO-4 HH Original Drive, and recently i'm getting a lot of problems with tapes. For a long time every 3-5 tapes, the drive asks me for a cleaning tape, but lately the drive needs to be cleaned very often (every 2 tapes, and…
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Why is this LTO4 Tape-drive not working

# modprobe mptsas # dmesg [ 4274.796796] scsi target7:0:0: mptsas: ioc1: delete device: fw_channel 0, fw_id 0, phy 0, sas_addr 0x50050763124b29ac [ 4274.939579] mptsas 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A disabled [ 4280.934531] Fusion MPT SAS Host driver…
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I-Series Daily Backup

I have just purchased a new tape drive that is not a library system. (Long story) It is a LTO4 and we would like to back up 2 days on one tape. Is this possible? The new system we ordered will not allow us to add our older tape drive without…
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Remote Storage Service: Can only select "Removable Media" as media type

I'm trying to set up a Windows Server 2003 Remote Storage Server with a bunch of LTO4 tapes and an HP 1840 LTO4 drive. I understand the theory behind it (transparently archive older files from a particular disk volume to tape) and am trying to make…
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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 the lto4 file from here with updated manufacturer…
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Does IBM LTO4 HH can power up on RAID B120i or is it dead drive?

I've purchased IBM LTO4 HH in enclosure (SAS) as I do not have external SAS cable I wanted to use it from 5.25" bay, however when I tried to boot up from my MicroServer G8 (only spare server which I was able to shutdown to play with) (RAID card is…
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tar/dd - Error writing to tape drive - Device or resource busy

I tried to pipe tar to dd and use dd to write to tape in order to have progress: export TAPE=/dev/nst0 tar -b 128 -c *| dd of=$TAPE bs=65536 status=progress However I got an error tar: /dev/nst0: Cannot open: Device or resource busy tar: Error is…
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