Hello,
On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 11:44:54AM +0100, mick crane wrote:
> Do people use tape drives for backup ?
Only in places that need vast amounts of data stored for a very long
time with restores being rare. Restoration is slow with tapes. Even
a low end LTO drive will set you back thousa
On 2020-08-12 11:58, Dan Ritter wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open should be helpful
to you.
cheers
mick
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ot the tapes. That rivals - and may
> surpass - the build-from-parts cost of my entire computer, which is
> already nearly half storage by dollars spent.
>
> It's possible things have changed since then, but I'd be surprised if
> tape drives were economical enough to be practical in a n
mick crane wrote:
> Do people use tape drives for backup ?
> I saved data to tape before but I think they were DAT and not very big but
> see that these LTO-2 tapes are 600Gb and not expensive.
> Do people use those ?
Yes.
However, my company has switched over to using disk storage
On 2020-08-12 at 06:44, mick crane wrote:
> Do people use tape drives for backup ?
> I saved data to tape before but I think they were DAT and not very big
> but see that these LTO-2 tapes are 600Gb and not expensive.
> Do people use those ?
Depends on the context you're talking
Do people use tape drives for backup ?
I saved data to tape before but I think they were DAT and not very big
but see that these LTO-2 tapes are 600Gb and not expensive.
Do people use those ?
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or so and come with a 30-day warranty.
Assuming that they also have the appropriate SCSI HBA for PCI, that plus
a new set of tapes should do it.
Does anyone have any experience purchasing used tape drives? Is there
any way to determine during the 30-day warranty period how long the
drive will last
.
Assuming that they also have the appropriate SCSI HBA for PCI, that plus
a new set of tapes should do it.
Does anyone have any experience purchasing used tape drives? Is there
any way to determine during the 30-day warranty period how long the
drive will last?
Doug.
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Hey gang,
No reply. I guess I provided to much data ;)
So to Simplify:
Anyone ever use DDS2 tape drives?
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Hey gang,
No reply. I guess I provided to much data ;)
So to Simplify:
Anyone ever use DDS2 tape drives?
No.
I've looked at what to use for backup and have found that a mobile hard
drive (2.5) in a ruggedized enclosure (especially
Sorry to join the thread late - I use DDS3 tapes here. Can I be helpful?
Andy
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Sorry to join the thread late - I use DDS3 tapes here. Can I be
helpful?
Andy
I use an HP SureStore DAT8 -- DDS4 tapes. Can I help?
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I
getting any stand-alone HP C1533A SCSI DAT/DDS
tape drives to work with Debian.
The tapes, tape drives and SCSI cables are all known good, as they
were recently retired from working HP-UX systems.
To date, have destroyed 3 tape drives and 10 tapes trying to get any
tape media command to talk to them
will self destruct in about a year or two of
use. Sometimes silently.
At least you're using a Seagate and not an HP, which will last 6-12 months
if you're lucky.
As for other IDE drives, I don't know of any offhand that are worth the
time.
SCSI DDS-3/4 tape drives are relatively cheap, especially
this tape drive will self destruct in about a year or two of
use. Sometimes silently.
At least you're using a Seagate and not an HP, which will last 6-12 months
if you're lucky.
As for other IDE drives, I don't know of any offhand that are worth the
time.
SCSI DDS-3/4 tape drives
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All,
I am looking to install a Seagate Travan 10GB/20GB IDE Tape drive into a
Debian box.
My question is, what kernel support would one build into the kernel in
order to get such a drive working?
My first thought would be to use the IDE-SCSI
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All,
I am looking to install a Seagate Travan 10GB/20GB IDE Tape drive into a
Debian box.
My question is, what kernel support would one build into the kernel in
order to get such a drive working?
My first thought would be to
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On Sun, 29 Feb 2004 at 10:34:25PM -0500, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
I am looking to install a Seagate Travan 10GB/20GB IDE Tape drive into a
Debian box.
My question is, what kernel support would one build into the kernel in
order to get such
on Fri, May 11, 2001 at 12:36:50PM +0100, Gavin Hamill ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Hi :)
I've just acquired a HP C1533A tape drive, and whilst I can successfully
tar files back and forth from it, I'm poking in the dark..
I'm using 90m DDS-1 tapes, which give an uncompressed capacity of 2Gb
Hi :)
I've just acquired a HP C1533A tape drive, and whilst I can successfully
tar files back and forth from it, I'm poking in the dark..
I'm using 90m DDS-1 tapes, which give an uncompressed capacity of 2Gb with
this drive... but are there any tools to accurately measure both the data
rate and
Hello everybody,
Anybody ever use DLT8000 tape drives with Debian before?
I keep getting i/o error when I try to tar to it (/dev/st0). I have cleaned
the tape drive, used different tapes, etc...nothing works?
What am I doing wrong? Any ideas would be helpful?
Any help would be greatly
Dean A. Roman wrote:
Hello everybody,
Anybody ever use DLT8000 tape drives with Debian before?
yes both DLT4000 and 8000. the backup program i use is bru(commercial).
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00
Vendor: Quantum Model: DLT4000 Rev: D782
Type: Sequential-Access
Hello all,
I am trying to use a quantum DLT8000 tape drive with my debian
system. It seems to write 96K and then hangs. I see a bunch of
input/output errrors .
Has anybody had any luck with Quantum DLT8000 tape drives, or using
Legato with Debian?
The drive is scsi attached and using
Could some one tell me where to find descriptions of what
the different device designations mean, especially the
/dev/nst* and /dev/st* devices?
Thanks,
Vic Cain
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Could some one tell me where to find descriptions of what
the different device designations mean, especially the
/dev/nst* and /dev/st* devices?
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt
The /dev/nst* devices are the
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Could some one tell me where to find descriptions of what
the different device designations mean, especially the
/dev/nst* and
Edward == Edward Mulholland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Edward The linux hardward compatability HOWTO at
Edward http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html says the
Edward following about ATAPI tape drives:
ATAPI tape drives For these an alpha driver (ide-tape.c) is
available
The linux hardward compatability HOWTO at
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html
says the following about ATAPI tape drives:
ATAPI tape drives
For these an alpha driver (ide-tape.c) is available in the kernel.
ATAPI tape drives supported are
Seagate TapeStor 8000
Conner CTMA
Is it possible to have multiple FC-10/20 (jumperless) cards in one
machine? I'd like to put 3 of them in the same machine for simultaneous
opperation.
I'm using kernel 2.2.11pre4 with ftape and zftape compiled as modules.
Thanks
-Paul
Can anybody give me any con's of the Seagate Tapestor 8G IDE tape drive?
I found a great deal on one and want to look out for any gotcha's. I
checked the Hardware compatibility list and it is on there but I
thought I would just check. The ide-tape.c driver says it is still
alpha. How
, but if you have a free IDE controller
(I think it doesn't mind too much going on the same one as a CD ROM drive)
then the IDE SHOULD work
I was advised before I was even looking at tape drives
You can use any scsi drive and most IDE drives
-Steve
Thanks,
Brian
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I've been using that exact model with no problems at all.
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I have had one too many hardware failures which resulted in me
Loosing everything lately, and as such would like to get a Tape drive
I have been told that with linux most IDE Tape drives and All SCSI
tape dirves will work
I have had a secret desire (ok..not so secret) to start using SCSI on my
Stephen Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
| I have had one too many hardware failures which resulted in me
| Loosing everything lately, and as such would like to get a Tape drive
| I have been told that with linux most IDE Tape drives and All SCSI
| tape dirves will work
| I have had a secret
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote:
I got (for free) a SCSI controller...
somone bought an internal SCSI Zip drive here at work but already
had a SCSI card so they gave me the new one from the Zip drive...
is this controller worth bothering with or should I spend the $$ to get
a
Hi,
I have a Parallel Port Ditto 3200 tape drive. Is there support for these sorts
of things under Linux? If so where should I start looking to get it setup.
Thanks,
Timothy
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Hello again everyone,
A little ways back I asked some things about Tape Drives, and I
really appreciate all the responses. One last thing, though.
I lot of people mentioned one with a SCSI card, but I think that I
can only afford a parallel port one. Now, I know that it will be
slower
Hello everyone,
Please forgive me for a question that has probably been asked
thousands of times. I've just been so busy lately that I haven't been
able to do the research I usually would.
Does anyone have any recommendations on a tape drive that would be
compatible with Linux? My problem is
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello everyone,
Please forgive me for a question that has probably been asked
thousands of times. I've just been so busy lately that I haven't been
able to do the research I usually would.
Does anyone have any recommendations on a tape drive
Everytime I install the distribution I notice that despite configure the
tape driver and seeing the system report st0. I still have to MAKEDEV
nst0 _after making sure that omit stuff is all commented out_ in
/etc/makedev.cfg.
Also, if I interrupt gnutar after creating nst0 and just doing
Robert Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
nst0 _after making sure that omit stuff is all commented out_ in
/etc/makedev.cfg.
I think this, at least, is fixed in the latest install disks.
Also, if I interrupt gnutar after creating nst0 and just doing something
like
tar tf /dev/nst0
Susan G. Kleinmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Suggestion: if you have a SCSI tape drive, you might wish to check that
you can read from it, and/or you might wish to upgrade your kernel.
Here's a data point: I didn't have any problems reading my Exabyte
SCSI drive with 2.0.0 last night when
Hi Bill --
You said:
One thing to think about is the blocksize. If you've run mt -f
/dev/st0 setblk 0 (which is good for reading tapes written by SunOS
and AIX I have found) you won't be able read tapes written with the
default block size (whatever that is) and vice-versa.
I
I've been having a lot of problems with my SCSI tape drive in the
past week or so (Unrecognizable archive, etc.). Another user
also told me in private email that he'd also been having trouble with
his SCSI tape drive. (I have an Exabyte 8505; I do not know what kind of
SCSI tape drive the
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