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Questions tagged [tapedrive]

A tape drive is a device that reads and writes data on a magnetic tape, often for archival or backup purposes.

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my LTO2 drive wants to be cleaned repeatedly

A normal functioning backup job for a long while suddenly began to fail around thankgiving intermittently and kept getting worse as time went on. Now it's failing daily. I think my tape drive may be damaged but I am not completely sure on that. The…
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Does there exist SATA tape drives in the native 800GB - 1TB range?

The largest SATA tape storage I have been able to find is 160GB native, which is the Quantum DLT-V4. Does anyone know of SATA (or USB3) tape storage with 800GB-1TB native capacity? Update It could also be a SAS tape drive. Can anyone recommend a SAS…
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Scratch Media in Backup Exec

So Symantec wanted $280 per incident to use their support line without a support contract. Yikes! What is "Scratch Media"? I noticed that all the tapes in my library that aren't currently being used have been added to the Scratch Media set. Is this…
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Server tape backup solutions?

Our server is now setup to run a basic Domain. Our other (older) samba server uses an Iomega Internal REV tape drive for backups. There is an advantage to installing another tape drive the same into the new server, making the ability to mix and…
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Can I connect HP Ultrium 1760 drive to LSI Logic SAS 3041E controller using the cable on the picture

I want to connect HP StorageWorks LTO-4 Ultrium 1760 tape drive to LSI SAS 3041E controller using the cable on the photo. The cable is advertised as 0.7M Mini SFF-8482 to SAS 29P SATA . Or an adapter like this (second picture): SAS To Sata 22pin…
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Which SAS cable to connect an internal HP LTO-5 tape drive?

I've bought an internal HP Ultrium 3000 LTO 5 tape drive (Model 693416-001) without SAS connection cable. Being new to SAS I have discovered that there are loads of different types of cable, and I have no idea which the HP drive uses or how to find…
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Bareos Autochanger not pulling tape

I've taken over a configuration of Bareos on Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie). Its a fresh install, using both file and Autochanger storage. Everything looks correct and bconsole will talk with the changer (I can move, mount, unmout, label tapes etc.).…
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How to configure the st kernel module for LTO-6 tape drives?

I found a hint to configure the st module in a mail from 2004 redhat mailinglist about a slow LTO-2 drive. modprobe st buffer_kbs=1024 max_buffers=128 max_sg_segs=128 blocking_open=1 Are similar settings required for best performance of LTO-6…
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VMWare ESX/i 4 SCSI Tape?

Has anyone successfully used SCSI mapping to present a SCSI tape drive to a VM for backup purposes? My servers do not support VMDirectIO (VT-d), so I can't present the PCI device to the VM, and my Adaptec 39160 is not supported in ESXi4. Before I…
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How can I discover the content of a non-descript LTO3?

I've been handed an LTO3 which has been written with content, but I have no idea how it was made. I've been given the task of finding out what is actually stored on the tape. I've tried the usual tar command but the errors suggest the tape wasn't…
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HP DL385 G7, HP LTO 6 drive + P431 controller + 2012R2?

Im faced with the challange to making my HP385 Gen7 work with my new HP LTO 6250 drive on a HP SAS bus card. Originally the plan was to use a SC08ge adapter with srv 2008R2 but suddenly my company changed policy to be installing srv 2012R2. I've…
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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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Backing up VMs without separate backup server

We're buying a new server and are switching to a virtual environment. We want to have one physical server as a host containing several guest servers. We're a small organisation and we know that ideally we should have more redundancy, but it's not…
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Can I plug a tape drive into a 3ware 9750 RAID controller

I need to archive about 30TB of data from a NAS RAID machine. The machine runs CentOS 5. It has a 3ware 9750-41 card with a single external SAS SFF-8088 connector. The LTO 6 external drives from both Quantum and HP come with this type of…
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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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