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Tapes are used by a tape backup machine.

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LTO Ultrium 2 - free management software

i'm making backup using ntbackup to write on LTO Ultrium 2 cartridges ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open ). All worked fine till last week when suddenly all cartridges are rejected (for backup) by the tape. (Just a bit of information i…
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BackupExec 10d crashing 2k3 server

There are two weeks now since I'm doing repository-like backup, because BE10d is crashing the file server. The computer is a NEC Express 5800, 2xXeon, 1 GB RAM, 4 SCSI drives in RAID 5 w/ spare, one 160 GB IDE and 4mm tape (connected to onboard SCSI…
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boot IBM p series 650 from 3580-L23 LTO-2 tape

We have a p series 650 that has a dds4 tape drive built-in. In the past, recover has been as simple as putting a mksysb tape into the drive and booting the machine. During boot, the machine detects that a tape is in the drive and goes into the…
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How do tape backups work?

We are backing up to tapes but more often then not the tape will be spat out and we will have an error like The requested media failed to mount. The operation was aborted. which from what I can tell could mean the drive is full (doesn't looks like…
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tar from tape never finds directory I want

I'm a newbie when it comes to working with tape backups. I'm trying to extract a directory from a tape archive, and not getting much success. The directory on the tape is of the format /foo1/foo2/foo3/foo4/foo5/foo6 with the directory I want being…
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Tape restore giving error incorrect block size - Win2k8

I'm trying to restore from tape and I am getting an error of incorrect block size. The software I used to backup is called BackupAssist and their support hasnt been the greatest. One weird thing I noticed, after updating the tape drive drivers the…
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library recognization fail on DPM 2010

I have a tape library SONY AIT 150 GB SCSI drive(D81 library). the tape drive recognized by DPM 2010. But when i install the changer, again it shown as a stand alone drive on DPM2010 console. i have made changes on DPMLA.XML file but it is not…
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Using DirectPath I/O and adding a tape drive directly to a vSphere 5 virtual machine

The network consists of 2 VM hosts, host A and host B running vSphere 5.0.x, and a physical server that a single Dell LTO-4 tape drive is connected to via SAS through an added PCI card. What would be the ideal method to connect this tape drive to…
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Do I need specialized backup software for Dell TL2000 Tape Library?

I am not really a hardware guy. I am looking at buying a new TL2000 tape library (hopefully LTO-5). Do I need anything more than the hardware and built-in backup software available in Win2k8 Server? All of the boxes being backed up are either…
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arcserve brightstor 11 next tape email

Is there anyway of getting brightstor 11 to email out to a group of users when a new tape is required for a backup job (ie when the backup on a particular day spans over multiple tapes). At the moment we have to physically visit the server or rdp to…
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Back-up solution for Xserve + Xserve RAID?

I've got an Apple Xserve, connected to a 10TB Xserve RAID. I've also got several other Windows-based servers, and file servers, in the same rack. My current tape back-up solution runs on a Windows server, and it doesn't play nice with my Mac…
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What are the benefits of using 2 LTO-5 in parallel for pure CIFS backup?

I use a NetApp FAS3240 as a storage system, and I'd like to attach an LTO-5 NDMP backup system (with Backbone) in Fiber Channel. What will be the difference of using 1 LTO-5 or 2 LTO-5 streams? Will it improve performance a lot? Is there any kind of…
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Hard Disk based storage library

We have a Tandberg T24 tape device to handle all of our long term backups right now. We decided that we're not backing up nearly everything that we would like to and that we still have a lot of vulnerabilities. To get to where we want to be, we're…
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Tape Library Appears Offline in Microsoft DPM 2007

This issue has been plaguing me for a few days now and I can't seem to make any headway. This will be my first test of the serverfault community. We have an HP server with two SCSI attached tape drives. The server has Backup Exec 11d installed AND…
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Backup alternative to tape - inexpensive SAN?

I'm pricing SANs and the cheapest I can find are 36k; we're limited in our department to 25k in purchases before they go for approval. I'd love to get rid of tape backup, as they are cumbersome and unreliable. Can a SAN be had in the 20k range?
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