Yes, today was a big success indeed, to the tune of saving thousands or tens of thousands of dollars and an even more valuable sigh of relief- thanks again to all the participants in NLUG that help keep it going M
On Mon, Aug 27, 2018, 21:20 Howard White <hwh...@vcch.com> wrote: > Dru asked that I report back to the list as to what and how I did to > work with Michael. First and foremost, I had a whiteboard discussion > with Michael as to the nature of the data, not just the quantity. I > brought along an Ubuntu 16.04 server with a really old DLT drive for the > purpose of demonstration. Come to find out, Michael had a similar > server with the proper, new fangled, external interface to connect to > the LTO6 drive. We yanked the boot drive out of my server, installed > the drive in his server and PRESTO! It just works. No extra drivers, > no runs, no drips, no errors. > > Better than that, I have a SATA drive dock with an eSata interface. > Both of our respective servers have eSata ports on the back and so I > hooked it up. Not only did the servers recognize the drives, we were > able to hot, okay maybe more like luke, swap the drives out of the dock. > I was careful to unmount the volume from the linux file system and > then power off the dock before swapping the drive. That beats the stink > outta having to power off the server to swap out external SATA drives. > This may have been available for some time now but I'm just now coming > upon it. > > Michael and I shall meet more to address some operational procedures. > Today was a big success in the proof of concept. I left this evening > with the server running backing up a 2TB SATA drive, connected in a USB > SATA dock; an excellent overnight activity. > > Howard > > On 08/24/2018 12:56 PM, jonnyX wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Mike (helpwithmath153@gmail) needs some assistance with a tape archive > > unit. He needs it working yesterday, and he's not asking for free tech > > support. > > > > I had done some preliminary research earlier in the week, tracking down > > hardware & driver info (see below), but it looks like this is going to > > involve a bit more research and an onsite visit to get the archive > > system up and running. Unfortunately, I am flat on my back with a summer > > cold, plus my car is in the garage & I don't get it back 'til Monday. > > Then I'm scheduled to go out of town from Tuesday the 28th through > > September 4th or 5th. > > > > Can anyone give Mike a hand? > > > > ~~Dru > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
