I have a Dell PE2900 SCSI'd out to a Quantum SL3. I'm attempting to read/display the contents of the tapes or maybe dump the displayed contents or table of contents to a file.
I can see and access the library: ]# mtx status Storage Changer /dev/changer:1 Drives, 16 Slots ( 0 Import/Export ) Data Transfer Element 0:Full (Storage Element 1 Loaded):VolumeTag = NGL930L3 Storage Element 1:Empty Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=NGL985L3
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But when I try running tar -tzf /dev/changer or tar -tvf /dev/changer I just get a flashing cursor and the drive sits at IDLE.
I am looking at getting a DLT drive for my network; however, I have never used the tar command with a tape drive. What happens if the data is larger then 1 tape? Does the tar application automatically span tapes or do I need to use switches so it spans multipule tapes? Right now my Full backup will take 2 or 3 tapes.
I have been using an LTO-5 Ultrium-3000 tape drive connected to an ATTO HBA without problem. I can control the tape drive using "mt -f /dev/nst0" and have been able to make successful backups using cpio, tar, and dump/restore. I followed some instructions on the web about how to install the HPE Library and Tape Tools application (version 4.21) which relies on conversion of a rpm to a deb file. The software seems to have been installed correctly and runs. However the hardware scan function does not recognize my tape drive. The following is suggested in the user manual if the tape device is not recognized by the software under Linux:
1. Login as root. 2. Edit the following file: vi /etc/modules.conf 3. Add the following line as appropriate: add options scsi_mod max_scsi_luns=128 4. Reboot the computer.
The problem is I don't have an /etc/modules.conf and am not sure exactly which file would be equivalent? If this is even the correct solution.
My tape drive is controllable and functions well using "mt -f /dev/nst0 status" so it seems to be a matter of LT&T software to detect the tape drive.
At the risk of providing too much info here some, possibly relevant, output from lshw
*-pci:3 description: PCI bridge product: 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1c bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.0 version: b5
I have dell poweredge 830 server with tape drive and RHEL 4 running on it....the issue i am facing is,i am unable to insert the tape as i had ejected the tape forcefully from it....
i tried to do a listing of the contents backedup on tape and it got struck in middle throwing below error,
/dev/st0:device input/output error. after which i was unable to eject the tape using mt -f /dev/st0 rewoffl
i removed the tape by holding the eject button and now when i try to insert another tape, it's unable to take the tape in to tape drive...
I've tried doing all except reeboting the server, can any one help me out in this issue, hope the blow information may help in debugging the issue... code....
I want to know the exact command to shut down a red hat linux server.I was using init 0. but some one said its not the proper method to shut down my linux server.If not which is the exact command
I have a program which mounts /dev/sdb1 for which I lack the source code. This device does not exist on my RedHat 9 system and I want to create /dev/sdb1 such that it's an alias for /dev/hdb1 Can I do this? with MAKEDEV?
I need to have an alias which will allow it to mount, not create a symbolic link to an already mounted directory. i.e. 'mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/harddrive' should actually mount /dev/hdb1
We have RHEL4 loaded on the server and our tape drive is not working.While taking the backup on the tape using the command tar cvf /dev/nst0 * the system is creating a tar file by the name of nst0 in /dev directory and no backup is being taken on the tape .Please provide solution.
I have a tape deck which I have connected to my sound card (REaltek AC'97 Audio, is the info I could gather) and of course when I play a tape I'd like to hear it though my sound card. Problem is, it is not working.
My info: A double boot Fedora 12/WinXP SP3 machine. Please do note that when I boot into WinXP I do not have this problem, I can hear the music fine. Further, previously and with exactly the same hardware but with FC 6 it worked! In other words by upgrading from FC 6 to Fedora 12 I lost the ability to use my sound card this way (in Linux).
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1) Is there a way of running the above command on redhat? (A redhat command for installing things?)
2) How can I be sure I'm using redhat and not some other OS?
I cant mount a directory on red hat 5 from red hat 4 using fstab.I keep getting permission denied.I mount directories on the same red hat 5 sys from other red hat 5 and 2 old HPUX systems using fstab.When I try to telnet to it i get "no route to host."
on a Linux pc I want to restore the contents of the DLT tape to /mnt directory,how to do itIf I just want to see the contents of the files, is it possible to read the contents irectly from tape without restoring to hard disk?
You would think it would be easy to do this (and essential to maximizing and predicting the usage of tapes), but apparently this isn't so. The program MT(1) actually had some commands that give the block positition (if supported by the drive) from which the remaining space could be deduced (even if you couldn't predict exactly how much space the next archive would take up). However I'm using MT(1L) which no longer has such commands.
I have a Red Hat Enterprise (AS) 4.8 system and I need to know how to totally rebuild the system from dump tape. I have been making some full level 0 dumps of the system to the attached DAT72 tape drive... In the case the boot disk goes south, I need to reload from tape, onto a new disk drive. I know how to do this in Solaris. I assume you boot from CD to like a mini-root, then configure and mount the drive on temp mount points, restore the sys data, then load the "boot blocks" (like installboot on solaris).
i hope i'm posting in the right forum "Networking" subject related to remote onnection.. all the suggestions and solutions i found on the net did not do it for me..i have redhat(EL v4) and hp-ux(11i B v23) servers
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I have a 2 node RH 5u4 64-bit. I have installed and configured the latest Veritas CFS (Cluster File System) which also uses Veritas Cluster Server. File system if VxFS. Storage is on EMC Symmetrix arrays with Veritas Mirroring between the arrays.We have noticed that running 'du -hs' on the shared directory/filesystem where it takes about 3 minutes on one node and 30 - 45 minutes on the other node.I've been running strace on 'du'.'du' runs an 'lstat' on each file (66,000+ files). On the slower node, the ave time spent in 'du' is about .001 seconds longer, which accounts for the 30-45 minutes. Also, the standard deviation is much larger, which means to me that the lstat times are all over the place!Another interesting thing is that iozone profiling shows that the i/o rates from both nodes are darn near identical, with no anomalies at various buffer & file sizes! And, iostat looks really good as does 'vxdmpadm iostat show
I need help writing a script that will copy everything from tape to system directory. I have a Linux box with 3 TB of Hardware space. I am using the following commands
1) mt /dev/st0 rewind
2) tar xvf /dev/st0
3) tar xvf /dev/st0 fsf 1 (Using this to move to the next segment of the tape) and then
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