Tapes are used by a tape backup machine.
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Netbackup refuses to use tapes in library
Sometime over the Thanksgiving holiday, my Netbackup installation decided that it no longer liked the tapes in my library. It had worked fine a week ago with no changes that I can think of, besides moving the new week's set of tapes into the…
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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 is done, the tape library doesn't load the first…
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Quantum Scalar i80 - I see the tape drive, but not changer
I have a Quantum Scalar i80 connected via SAS to a CentOS 6 server. When I look in /proc/scsi/scsi, I see the tape drive, but I don't see the changer.
From /proc/scsi/scsi:
Host: scsi8 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
Vendor: IBM Model:…
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What format does commvault restore to for SQL server backups?
I have a pretty challenging task that I need to figure out.
I have 6TB of data in New Hampshire that I need to move to Texas. It is all SQL Server data. The data is backed up to tape via Commvault as well as a Netapp filer.
What I am trying to…
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Is there a way to backup logs to tape without mounting a NAS?
The traditional way to send logs to tape backup as I understand it is to mount a NAS which has the ability to do tape backups (or maybe send to a syslog server which in turn mounts a NAS).
Is there a way to backup to tape without mounting a NAS?…
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How to troubleshoot tape backup issues via mt on Linux for Windows backups?
I have an HP Ultrium 448 tape backup that is being recognized without seeming issue on Ubuntu. I am able to see it at /dev/st0.
When I issue mt -f /dev/st0 offline, the tape ejects. When I issue mt -f /dev/st0 status, I get:
SCSI 2 tape drive:…
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Adic Scalar 100 (Dell Powervault 136T) drive firmware downgrade problem
I've got an Adic Scalar 100 (also commonly rebranded by dell as powervault 136T). recently one drive failed and we put in a spare LTO2 drive into the changer.
Unfortunately, the drive has slightly newer firmware which causes the changer to complain.…
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Problems partitioning an AIT-4 Tape
Drive: SONY AIT-4 drive SDX-900V series Ver.2.1
Media: AIT-4 (SDX4-200C)
I am using SCSI commands to try and create 2 partitions on a tape (done the same thing before on VXA & DDS drives).
The product specification manual implies that this is…
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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 is 652G and we are using LTO 4 tapes…
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dd unable to write to tape drive
I'm trying to dump our online backups to tape; for obvious reasons I want to encrypt the data on the tapes, so to write to the tape I need to tar everything up, pipe that to openssl to encrypt it, then write that to tape:
tar c /etc | openssl…
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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, but that can be solved with a 3rd party tape…
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Backup Exec 11D and Thecus N5200 Pro
I have a Thecus N5200 Pro integrated into my Windows 2003 AD network. My current backup solution involves Backup Exec 11D but this requires a running service for windows boxes or a similar daemon for linux machines. The N5200 runs a custom linux…
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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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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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NTBackup fails, claims hardware failure or permission issue, but all hardware replaced
We have a server running incremental backups four times a week, and full backups once a week. It has been reporting hardware errors, intermittently but more frequently as of late:
Error: The device reported an error on a request to read data from…
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