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Tapes are used by a tape backup machine.

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What tape drive reads Verbatim DC6250?

We've got some old (very) data on Verbatim DC6250 tapes that needs to be read and no hardware to do it with. What drive(s) will read these tapes?
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Where to find infos about functions and opportunities for backup / archive systems

we are thinking about building an archive system (>1PB) to store video-files. Probably this complex system will be assemble by different technologies and sub-systems. But one decisively point will be the type library. Now, before that project really…
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HP MSL2024 not auto changing tapes using Ultrabac 9.2.2

I am using Ultrabac 9.2.2 to run backup sets to a one drive HP MSL2024 tape library. It's currently connected via SAS 3Gbs to a HP Proliant DL380G6 running Server 2008 R2. I have the drivers from HP installed, I just verified. However, in Device…
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HP P212 RAID + Tape Library = Kernel Panic

I have a HP DL320e g8 v2 server running CentOS 7.1 (kernel 3.10.0-229.4.2.el7.x86_64). The onboard B120i SmartArray was disabled, and a PCI-Express P212 SAS HBA was installed with two identical 3TB Seagate disks in RAID-0 on the internal SAS port.…
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Erase old dump tape in Tru64 UNIX

We backup our OLD Tru64 UNIX system (Digital UNIX 4.0F) to DDS3 tapes using the dump command. We want to recycle those tapes to make future backups on when they get too old. I've found the mt erase command won't erase them, probably because the…
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How to repair a Veritas tape that has been overwritten a bit?

I meant to restore some files, but I forgot that there was a monday backup job just waiting for tape loading. So veritas 10d started to write over my tape and that valuable data is now gone. The original data size was about 40 GB and that…
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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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Read performance of old LTO-2 tape

I have a stack of old LTO-2 tapes, and my task is to save the contents as large binary files on disk for eventual consolidation on newer media. (The contents are in a custom format specific to this site, not relevant to this question. I don't need…
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Backup exec LTO tape capacity shows as 17.8GB

I have come across administering a Backup Exec 10d system, and all its tapes show a Total Capacity of 17,8 GB while showing a Used Capacity of e.g. 281GB. The tapes are LTO2 so they should have 200GB uncompressed, which matchs the 281GB shown above,…
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Use dd or redirection to write to tape?

My Googling for writing to tapes with encryption have turned up various results. Most along the lines of piping tar to openssl similar to: tar cf - /home | openssl des3 -salt -k "Your-Password-Here" Some then pipe to dd, while other just redirect…
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Get a tally of tapes in an IBM 3500 tape library

My organization uses an IBM 3584 Tape Library. I want to know how many tapes are currently loaded into it and how many slots are available in the library total (or at least remaining). IBM's website suggests to either use the web interface (not…
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VERITAS Backup Exec does not accept tapes

VERITAS Backup Exec 8.60 Rv 3878 does not accept brand new Sony SDX3-100C tapes using a Compaq AIT 50 GB tape drive. I want to introduce new tapes to an ancient backup system as described above on a Windows 2k machine. I tried the "Inventory" and…
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Best format/approach for one-off backups to tapes?

We're currently backing up quite a lot of data from different servers to a tape library using Amanda Backup and it works just fine. Now I need a one-off backup of a specific set of files (in a location that's not otherwise backed up) to tape for…
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Debian - Persistent tape binding

I have a problem, whenever the library is rebooted, a cartdrige is mounted, or any operation, Linux is changing path for library, making it unavailable to automate backup procesing, it is even worst when I have two drives on a library because system…
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Exabyte tape drive conversion to hard drive

I've never used tape drives before. For work I have to transfer some data from old Exabyte cassettes to a hard drive using an Exabyte tape drive reader. I don't have more information than this at the moment, but has anyone ever done something like…
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