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Linear Tape Open is a family of tape specifications ranging from 100 GB (LTO-1) to 12 TB (LTO-8).

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Is it possible to connect an HP 1760 SCSI Tape to a regular NON server board PC?

I own an Ultrium HP Tape 1760 SCSI, that used to reside on a Dell 2850, on an LSI SCSI card. That Server is now R.I.P. Sad to say. I want to connect the Tape to another PC, is it possible? What card do I need? A specific MOBO maybe? Ignoring the…
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Mac - Thunderbolt eGPU + PCIe SAS card for LTO tape drive (SAS card compatibility)

I'm looking for open minded person who can answer my unusual question that might defy logic at first glance but might be valid. Recently I got need for reading LTO tapes that act as archive. I would like have LTO drive next to my apple laptop…
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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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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 everything on and plugged in, but I am not seeing the…
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Reconnecting SAS equipment

I need to reconfigure the cabling between some LTO tape drives and a server. Are they plug and play or do I need to do any configuration? From what I've read so far, it seems that recycling the power on the server and the drives should be enough. We…
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Backup strategy for millions of files in lots of directories

We have millions of files in lots of directories, for example: \00\00\00\00.txt \00\00\00\01.pdf \00\00\00\02.html ... so on \05\55\12\31.txt backing up these to tape is slow as backing up data in this format is much slower than backing up a single…
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Do non sticky LTO barcode labels exist?

I don't rip off old LTO labels that often, but it is very annoying when I do have to do it. Is there a stickerless solution? Perhaps stick on clear sleeves or plastic tabs that hold removable labels?
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LTO Ultrium 2 - free management software

i'm making backup using ntbackup to write on LTO Ultrium 2 cartridges ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open ). All worked fine till last week when suddenly all cartridges are rejected (for backup) by the tape. (Just a bit of information i…
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data protector red tapes

I am using HP Data Protector A.06.11 in my organization, with HP EML E-SeriesEML library, with 4 drives using LTO-4 tapes, and i am having some problems. Yesterday I put 5 new tapes in the robot and formatted them. At that time, the robot got just…
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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 that a tape is in the drive and goes into the…
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ntbackup asks for a free media LTO-1, but shouldn't

I'm facing this problem: on Windows 2003 server STD, I can't safely perform unattended data backup on tape (HP LTO-1 drive) because it asks for a free media tape after 90GB of data written. The hardware compression is enabled, so I expect to back-up…
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What are the IOPS and physical block size for modern magnetic tapes?

It's obvious that magnetic tape media performs IO operations as well as HDDs and SSDs, although this storage device is not designed for a random access pattern. LTO standards define maximal data transfer rate (also known as throughput) measured in…
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LTO6 drive asking firmware update but does not accept it

I recently pulled an ibm LTO 6 fh fibre drive from a library and was using it in standalone mode in a windows 10 pc where I use other sas drives. It was working just fine. Yesterday I turn it on to run some backups and notice SCD code 4 on the…
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Read LTO memory chip with a drive older than the tape

That is the question. Can I read the data inside the memory chip of a lto7 tape using an lto6 drive? I have only tried ITDT on windows but it rejects to do anything with the tape. Just asking in case it would be posible, otherwise I would have to…
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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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