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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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How to recover Symantec Backup Exec backup via Linux?

I have a tape backup from a defunct server that was created via Symantec Backup Exec version 10.1.5629 on Windows. Is it possible to extract the backup from this using some standard or open source tools on Linux rather than resorting to a copy of…
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Simple backup tape wiping, from linux shell?

I have a pile of old unencrypted backup tapes I want to discard, and I'm looking for a really simple and free erase method. I have previously used the following method to zero hard drives on linux. There's no progress indicator, but it runs as fast…
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Is there a version of mt for windows, or something similar?

First of all, I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask this question. I was torn between SF and SU, but I decided for SF when I saw that questions about tape drives are scarce in SU. I need to manage a tape drive from windows. I'm using mtx,…
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Connecting our first tape drive (SAS) to SATA bus

Our small team is considering buying our first tape drive for backups. However, we are still lacking serious enterprise-grade servers and have to rely temporarily on SATA drives in our rigs. Cost considerations argue against setting up a high-end…
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Activate Tape Encryption on Windows Server

We use windows to make tape (LTO 8) backups with ltfs and now I want to use the hardware encryption. My problem is I can not find a way to activate it. For Linux I found "stenc" but is there something similar for windows? I only found backup…
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LTO-4 Tape Write Source Throughput Needs

I am looking to begin a tape backup regimen and am looking to keep data flowing to the tape drive in a sufficient manner (120+MBs target sustained) but cannot figure out how to do so without a dedicated source drive/array that idles when not writing…
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bareos Using both tape drives (not multiplexing)

I'm using a Neoseries T24 (Flexstor II) autoloader with two drives. I have tapes (11 of them) in a pool labeled 'Full'. When I run two jobs, both for the 'Full' pool, they will wait in sequence so they can both use the same drive (0) instead of one…
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Moving data to tape

At my new workplace, I am expected to backup older data (large image-files) to tape. As someone who as never used tapes, I have a few questions regarding them. It would be great if someone can point me to a guide on the web or answer them here.…
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Link between tape drive library index and its serial number on linux

I need to map system devices to their index in tape library on linux. How could I know by what index number in mtx command refers to a particular drive? I can get mapping between drive serial numbers and system devices, through sg_inq or similar.…
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Device busy when reading from tape drive with tar

When I try to read a tar from tape with tar tvbf 2048 /dev/nst0, it returns: tar: /dev/nst0: Cannot read: Device or resource busy tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now And lsof | grep st0 returns…
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Bacula not using the current In-Drive LTO Tape (but the oldest one)

I'm trying to configure Bacula to automatically recycle and use a random tape i put in the single LTO drive, but it seems to prefer the oldest backup tape despite it isn't in the drive. I already marked all tapes as "Used" and ensure the retention…
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How to recover data from a Windows 2003 Server HP StorageWorks Ultrium 448 Backup via Linux?

I have a scenario where I have to recover a backup from an Ultirum 448 tape medium that was made on Windows 2003 server. The only system that I have available for recovery is a Linux server with comparable hardware. Is there a way to use tape…
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Loose threader in LTO-5 SAS internal drive

Once more I have a tape drive issue. I started seeing lots and lots of hardware errors with our LTO-5 SAS drive within our Superloader 3 changer. The main upshot was that the drive would think a tape was loaded when it was not. I can add specific…
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Bacula Loading Tape at the Wrong Library

I have two HP Tape Libraries installed on the Storage (LibHP08 and LibHP09), i tried to configure some jobs to access both libraries, but I'm having some trouble with bacula accessing the wrong library. For example, bacula tries to access volume…
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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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