Hardware :: System To Command To Clean Tape Drive?

Sep 30, 2010

I have a questions concerning tape drives.

Is it necessary to erase tape before recording ?

Do You know linux command to clean tape drive ?

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Ubuntu :: Use The Tar Command With A Tape Drive - Data Is Larger Then 1 Tape

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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Debian Hardware :: Getting HPE Library And Tape Tools To Recognize Tape Drive

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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Red Hat :: Unable To Insert DAT72 Tape In Tape Drive / Fix It?

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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Hardware :: Retrival Partial Files From Lto 4 Tape Instead Of Retrieving Complete Tape

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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Ubuntu :: Backup To Tape Drive (hp Dat 72)?

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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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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General :: Tape Command Redhat Es 3 $ Tar Tvf /dev/st0 Is Not Working ?

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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Fedora Servers :: Tar And Mt Commands For Tape Drive?

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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Server :: Install And Mount DAT Tape Drive?

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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Server :: Tape Drive Backup Linux

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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Red Hat :: Installing Ultrium 448 External Tape Drive?

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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Red Hat :: Make A Hard Disk Act Like A Tape Drive?

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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CentOS 5 Hardware :: Vxa-2 Tape Drive Not Found

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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Hardware :: Bacula - Setting Up Tape Drive Backup

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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General :: Script To Detect Whether Tape Exist In Its Drive - Not?

Dec 14, 2010

Not sure whether is feasible or not...

Any idea how to script to detect whether are there any tape media loaded in the tape drive ?

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General :: Use USB Tape Drive On Centos 5.3 (kernel 2.6.18-164.10.1.el5PAE)?

Mar 2, 2010

I have been trying to install HP Storageworks DAT72 on CentOS 5 in vain. On system reboot, neither /dev/st not /dev/sg is available.

lsmod
Module Size Used by
ipv6 267617 40
xfrm_nalgo 13381 1 ipv6

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Server :: Enabling Compression On Ultrium LTO-2 Tape Drive?

May 26, 2011

We have been using an Ultrium LTO-2 tape drive to perform backups of certain information from our file server. Recently, the data that we are backing up has grown too large to fit on the tapes in their 200GB uncompressed capacity. I have been looking around for a way to enable the compression in the drive, but I haven't found much. I am not using any backup software, so I'm not sure if I'll even be able to. I write the tape using a simple 'tar' command, so there aren't a whole lot of options to be set. Is there a way that I can enable the drive's compression, or would I be better off running the tar command with the gzip or bzip flags?

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Server :: Enabling Encryption On LTO4 Tape Drive?

Oct 22, 2010

I didn't know if I should have posted this in newbie, hardware, or server. I haven't used tape drives in Linux previously; however I'm trying to figure out how to enable an LTO-4 tape drives built in encryption. Im not that concerned with secure key management, I am looking to just being able to load a key into the drive and get the tape to encrypt. Im for a simple command, but I dont even know where to start. If it varies by device, its an HP Ultrium 4 (1760).

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Red Hat / Fedora :: Got A Tape Drive Attached To Server Connected By SAS Card?

May 25, 2010

I've got a Tape drive attached to my server connected by SAS card, and am trying to copy some data across.but it fails to write, in dmesg i seescsi 1:0:1:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 1mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x31120403): Originator={PL}, Code={Abort}, SubCode(0x0403) does this mean faulty hardware/cables?

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Hardware :: Exabyte Vxa 3 Tape Drive - Mt -f /dev/nst0 No Such Address Or Device

Jan 3, 2011

I have an LTO-3 tape drive.

It shows

Code:

when I do:

Code:

I am running as root

Would like to NOT reboot this server. (WEBSITE) It is running Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 8)

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Server :: Make Storageworks Tape Drive Work With Redhat 5?

Nov 25, 2010

make storageworks tape drive work with redhat 5

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General :: Rebuild System From Dump Tape?

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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Ubuntu Installation :: Accessing The L-TO-4 SAS External Tape Drive And Backup Data On It?

Feb 28, 2011

I am running Ubuntu 10.04, and i recently purchased an tandberg LTO-4 SAS tape drive. I want to access it and backup data on it. Do I simply just connect plug it into the server,and I should be able to backup/transfer data to the tape drive? Or are there intermediate steps before I can do that. Here are some results from commands that I have typed:

Quote:

ls /dev/tape/
by-id

Quote:

ls -lt /dev/tape/by-id/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2011-02-25 14:54 scsi-3500110a00145553e -> ../../st0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2011-02-25 14:54 scsi-3500110a00145553e-nst -> ../../nst0

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General :: Moving Data From Tape To System Directory?

Feb 10, 2011

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

4) tar -xvf/dev/st0

I keep repeating steps 3 and 4.

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CentOS 5 Hardware :: Support HP EH854A LTO4 External SCSI Tape Drive?

Mar 24, 2010

Does CentOS 5 support HP EH854A LTO4 External SCSI tape drive?

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General :: Diagnosis An Unstable System / Seeing File System Is Not Clean During Boot?

Feb 22, 2010

So 2 days ago everything was all fine on my machine. Has been for about a month, but all of a sudden as of yesterday I have no sound, I am seeing IRQ interupts on boot, During boot I am seeing file system is not clean, , and swap space is being used for the first time while doing normal task, etc. These are 2 new hard drives in RAID 1 with ReiserFS. I should have used a newer FS but thats a whole other argument.

Anyways here we go.
The system is Debian Lenny amd64
Physical RAM 4GB + 6GB swap
/var/log/messages

Code:
Feb 21 07:35:09 Sarah kernel: imklog 3.18.6, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Feb 21 07:35:09 Sarah rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="3.18.6" x-pid="3994" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] restart
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General :: Command Line - Count Number Of Folders In A Drive Using System?

Apr 9, 2010

I need to organise an external HDD such that there is no more than 500 folders on it.

Ubuntu's "Properties" pane shows only the file count, not the folder count.

Is there a simple CLI line that will tell me the number of subdirectories?

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Ubuntu :: What Does The CLEAN Command Do

May 30, 2011

I see sometimes when you're compiling something to run, you do a make, install and clean. What exactly does clean do?

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Feb 8, 2011

How to run the yum command in non-cache mode. I browsed but didn't get the correct answer.

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