Hardware :: Viability Of LTO 2/3 Tape Bakup Solution On Slamd64?
Aug 2, 2010
viability of using LTO tape backup on my Slamd64 based server.So let me begin with the specifications I have currently for my motherboard. I have an old ASUS K8V SE, The PCI spec is 2.2 And the Southbridge chipset is a VIA VT8237 So I was wondering how easy is it setup an LTO 2/3 internal or external tape drive and corresponding PCI or PCI-X SCSI card ? I was looking at the specs of the VIA VT8237 but couldn't find any concrete information on how it would handle PCI-X, though for the VT8237R Plus chipset they list this feature, "Dual PCI-X bus support through VIA VPX2 I/O expansion bridge" Anyways I just want to see what you guys on here thought, Ideally some info on the low level software backend and the high level user input frontend software would be useful too It is my first step into Tape drives.
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Apr 3, 2016
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
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Apr 26, 2010
I want to know how to retrival partial files from a lto 4 tape instead of retrieving the complete tape.
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Mar 8, 2010
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.
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Dec 8, 2008
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....
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Mar 8, 2010
I don't think it would be harmful to run ssh on the default port of 22. Especially since the machine will only accept key-based logins and only accept traffic on port 22 from external IP addresses that I specify.
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Dec 29, 2010
So my cousin took some video of Obama's Helicopter landing on a soccer field down the street from his house. He recorded it on a Sony HandyCam DCR-PC101 NTSC, which has a slot for an SD card, as well as some sort of cassette/tape. He recorded the video on the tape and not the video card. Now we need to get it off the tape and onto our computer. The camera came with a disc, but of course it is only for windows. It is called Pixela ImageMixer (Ver. 1.0 for Sony)
how I can get the tape onto my hard drive?
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Jul 5, 2010
I am a Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop user.
I am searching for a backup software to backup to my hp dat72 tape drive. It is only to backup my data from 1 PC.
I have already found bacula but it seems to big for my purpose. I need an easy and automatic software.
Could you recommend a backup software for my needs?
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Oct 5, 2010
How many times should a backup tape be used before being discarded? i cant find an answer for this question does anyone know, I'm thinking 1 but i have almost no knowledge on tape backup so i could be dead wrong.
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Oct 14, 2010
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?
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May 17, 2011
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.
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Dec 21, 2010
I bought the ION Tape Express to convert all my cassette tapes to mp3 on my computer. The software that came on the CD works fine in Virtualbox windows XP. I could be happy with this but would rather use Linux. The problem is Debian Squeeze sees the new USB device but I can't find a program that will record from it. I've tried gnome-sound-recorder, looked at k3b Audacity and several others. It might be because I don't know how to select the usb sound device.
chevy@debian:~$ lsusb
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 046d:c408 Logitech, Inc. Marble Mouse (4-button)
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 006: ID 0a5c:2148 Broadcom Corp.
Bus 006 Device 005: ID 0a5c:4503 Broadcom Corp.
Bus 006 Device 004: ID 0a5c:4502 Broadcom Corp. Keyboard (Boot Interface Subclass)
Bus 006 Device 003: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp. BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part of BCM2046 Bluetooth)
Bus 006 Device 002: ID 0d8c:0121 C-Media Electronics, Inc.
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
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Feb 26, 2010
I'm having issues with mt commands. For some reason, my server doesn't like backing up directories using tar.
Code:
# tar -czf /dev/st0 /www /home
ends up giving me an error message saying "removing / prefix" and then using the command
Code:
# mt -f /dev/st0 status
gives me an IOCTRL error. I've googled the error code and haven't come up with a viable fix. Thus far, the only way I've been able to check which files are on the tape is:
Code:
# tar -tzf /dev/st0
Of course, without getting the actual directories on the tape in the first place, the only files I've been able to transfer at this point are just singular files within the directories as opposed to the entire directories themselves.
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Mar 2, 2010
I've having problems in listing files from a TAPE. I did not create this tape and I'm assuming that the files were successfully backed up to this tape.Some commands that I've tried:
PHP Code:
atenreiro@intranet:~$ sudo mt -f /dev/nst0 status
SCSI 2 tape drive:
[code]...
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Jul 7, 2011
I have a 'Gadget Geek VHS to DVD maker' USB device that takes analogue video in (composite) and plugs into the computer via USB.
Here is the output of lsuss (it's the eMPIA one):
Code:
Now this is essentially as far as I get, DBUS just says the following when I plug it in:
Code:
What I want to be able to do is open the (theoretical) output stream it produces in vlc and record it from there. Then I run into my next issue. There is no video* folder or link or file in my /dev directory and I can't stream video directly from the appropriate 'special file' inside /dev/bus/usb/00*/00*
My machine is ubuntu 10.4 64-bit
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Apr 14, 2010
I'm trying to install an HP Storageworks 1/8 G2 Tape Autoloader onto my Debian Lenny machine. HP has "drivers and software" listed only for very specific versions of Linux and even then it's seems to be management software not drivers that is available. I'm a little on the green side of things still though getting better. This would be the first time I've had to go out of my way to make a piece of hardware work on a Linux server, so I'm not familiar with much. It's connected via SCSI card that is connected via PCI express. I'm starting to wonder if that SCSI card itself is not being detected and that problem has to be dealt with first. For example, get this running if HP only supports it for specific Linux OS's (Redhat, Suse Linux etc.) but not Debian?
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May 3, 2010
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.
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Feb 8, 2010
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).
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Mar 15, 2010
I am geting this problem since lat one year. please send me quikly the solution or the remedy of it.
Tape command:
Giving error like below archback is a shell script for the above same command for backup.
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Jun 24, 2011
iam trying to access tape drive .but iam not able to see its location.is any command to install and access tape drive
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Oct 8, 2010
i have centos 5.9 running on my server and i have to take backup of my entire data from the different server.This one I want to make it as backup server. I need few informations about the tap drive
1.Which tape drive is good also compatible with Linux (centos ), pls send me the link
2.How to take backup into tape drive , good if you send any doc.
3. Any backup software which is kind of opensource
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Jun 13, 2011
I need backup files to a tape drive on a remote server without being prompted for password.
I got the part working to tar files to the remote tape drive like this:
Code:
currently I got rsync to work with out being prompted for password like this:
Code:
How can I get the above tar command to work like the rsync command so it does not prompt me for a password.
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Mar 5, 2011
I have issues in installing HP Ultrium 448 external tape drive on HP ML 370 G5 server running Red-Hat-Linx OS. It has a SCSI interface & I thought it was suppose to plug & play but not. I got an information that all i need to do is echo "engage scsi" > /proc/drivers/cciss/cciss1 but unfornately i do not know how to do this because i just began learning about LINUX,
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May 4, 2011
I have a linux server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Update 8) that I need to do some unusual configurations to. I have a hospital application written using a database called MSE. Now the provider of this application says they will only support tape because of the fact that this system is using a specialized backup system. Basically the data is housed on raw_data blocks. So what I am looking to do is create a way to USE the SAN to present the server with Hard Drives and be mounted as if it was a tape. Has anyone tried to do something like this before? If so how did you configure that. One solution that I thought would be to just Present a 2TB lun and carve up several partitions cut not create filesystems on them. Then just create a symlink everynight /dev/rmt0 and rotate out the partitions.
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Jul 17, 2009
I installed centos on a server with a exabyte vxa-2 tape-drive. There are two harddisks and the tapedrive on the Adaptec SCSI 2010s Contoller. The harddisks are working , but it doesn't find the tapedrive. And there is nothing in /proc/scsi/scsi.What can i do to add the tape drive?
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Dec 24, 2010
Last month I found an old Seagate Hornet tape drive (STT20000A) with 2 TR-5 tapes at a thrift store. After sitting on a shelf at my place until last week I put it in an old system and installed Debian 5 on it. After a long time of working on it and never finding any useful help newer than 2007 I'm about to put it on eBay. So, here's a few questions:
Can this work in Debian 5 or should I put 4 or older on the system? If I put older linux on it, could I still get ide-scsi module working? apparently it has be obsolete for some time. The main problem is that it locks up the system when I try to write to it.
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May 3, 2011
I'm either missing the obvious or have four identically defective tape drives. Each is a Seagate or IBM Travan drive (yes, I know they're old and I need to access the data; they were in Win boxes) using QIC-80/DC-2120 media. I've been trying to solve this using three Fedora boxes (different versions) and one Debian machine.
The OS's recognize the drives and they show up as /dev/st0.
With no media in the drives, I get a status report; with media inserted, I get the same input/output errors.
Examples (all as root):
With tape inserted:
With no tape in drive:
With tape inserted
Everything I've found on Google suggests that the drives are defective.
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Mar 11, 2010
I have a HP Proliant DL380 G3 server with Ubuntu Server 9.10
I have a HP Storageworks Ultrium 215 tape device
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Sep 24, 2009
We are running SLES 11 where an iscsi tape library is attached. To load the tape in a slot we are using for
instance the command #mtx -f /dev/sg1 load 2 which is doing very well. But after a server's reboot the device name of the loader is now /dev/sg4 or /dev/sg5 I mean it is dynamic. Is there any way to have a fixed device name for all times?
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Sep 15, 2010
I am setting up a tape drive back up, but I am having "fun" with bacula configuration. Basically the drive is working , I ran the test with the btape program and all was correct. I am basically meddled up with the jargon and the very large bacula documentation. I created some 2 volumes and gave the mounted the tapedrive (labeled) the name of one of them "tapevol2" .... now I can not relabel the tape, I deleted the volume "tapevol2" but still the tape drive is mounted with that name, even though the volume is deleted. If I add ( create more volumes) I can not make the tape to mount with anything different that "tapevol2". I would like to go back to zero and delete all volumes, and mount the tape with one of the newly created volumes, so the jobs back up can run.
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