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Tapes are used by a tape backup machine.

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Resolve error "Required Media Missing" for tape backup

I just recently bought 8 brand new tapes for the purposes of backing up my data to tape drives. I put in one of the brand new tapes in the drive and opened up Backup Utility because this is the program i was instructed to use. I stepped through the…
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service for restoring tapes

I've got 30 to 40 LTO-1 and LTO-2 tapes that we used with BackupExec to backup our data. About a year ago we moved to another backup solution (Veeam). My LTO drive is dying/dead, and I'd like to restore the data from these tapes, probably to a hard…
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Windows Backup job fails

I currently have a server configuration that allows me to schedule backup jobs and copy the specified folders to tape backup on 4MM DDS tapes. Unfortunately this is my first experience with tape backup. (old school I know). However, I successfully…
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When writing remote data to a tape is the local drive throughput a factor in backup speed?

I'm working on a project to speed up our daily backups. I've mapped out the nodes that the data passes through from start to finish as best I can looking for bottlenecks. I am not sure if I should count the local storage on the server performing the…
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Tape software that presents library as network share?

I'm currently looking to design a storage architecture for a video production team. I've got the disk part sorted, but I'm looking for some advice on the tape library / long term archive part. The video assets are all stored centrally and managed by…
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Restore Unix Tapes in Windows

Hi Guys, I have some tape Cartridges written in UNIX/ Linux which i want to restore in a Windows Vista/ 2003 64bit Server system. Can anyone suggest the software/ tools required. Windows doesn't recognize these tapes when i insert in Tape…
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Why are extended warranties for tape auto loaders so high (nearly 50% the cost of the drive)?

I have quotes for an autoloader + extended warranty and I am baffled by the high cost of the warranty uplift. HP LTO-2 Bundle $3000, 3yr extended service agreement $1280 Quantum LTO-3 $2912, 3yr extended server $1408 Why is the warranty cost high?…
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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 from netbackup or the Linux host which the library…
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HP DAT72x6 autoloader

Hoping someone here has seen this similar issue and can offer soem advise... I have an HP DAT72x6 auto loader tape backup unit. The external kind, here is a link to an owner's manual I found of…
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mtx returns an error in Windows for an LTO library

I have been using the mtx utility (from Sourceforge) with success in both Linux and Windows environments to manage a tape library. It was last modified in 2008. Today, at a customer site, we used the following device id (from Windows Device Manager)…
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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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NDMP to VTL on a second SAN (with copy to physical)

I've got a Sun Storage 7000 that I'd like to backup/restore via the built-in NDMP service, since we've got an secondary SAN attached which is available via two 10GbE links to the primary storage I'd like to deploy it as a VTL solution. The secondary…
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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 the backup has failed twice with: data read:…
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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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Attaching more than one Server to a Tape Library

We are running multiple Dell PowerEdge's and want to connect them to a Dell TL1000 Tape Library. For my understanding, what we need is HBA cards for each Server to get the SAS connection. I ran into the problem, that the TL1000 provides only one SAS…
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