extracting files from old DAT tape
On a sarge machine, I have a WangDAT 3100 tape drive from the late 1990s. The tape from which I would like to recover certain files was made back in 1998 with bru. I loaded the module for it: # insmod st $ lsmod | grep st st 29112 0 (unused) scsi_mod95108 4 (autoclean) [st ide-scsi sd_mod aic7xxx] $ cat /proc/scsi/scsi Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00 Vender: WangDAT Model: Model 3100 Rev: 02.2 Type: Sequential Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 I insert a tape, the LED blinks many times and then remains on. # mt -f /dev/st0 status drive type = Generic SCSI-2 tape drive status = 318767616 sense key error = 0 file number = -1 block number = -1 Tape block size 512 byte. Density code 0x13 (DDS (61000 bpi)). Soft error count since last status = 0 General status bits on (101); ONLINE IM_REP_EN Now (in my ignorance) I tried: # tar xvf /dev/st0 *.xyz tar: /dev/st0: Cannot read: Input/output error tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now When I tried the tvf options for tar, I get the same result. Can I extract individual files this way from a tape made in the first place with bru? -- Haines Brown KB1GRM ET1(SS) U.S.S. Irex SS-482 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Detect DAT tape
How can I know if my DAT tape device is properly installed and configured? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Detect DAT tape
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, GBV wrote: How can I know if my DAT tape device is properly installed and configured? I have a SCSI DAT tape on one machine, so I only have experience with a SCSI DAT. When the machine boots up, you should see the SCSI adapter driver print a list of the SCSI devices that it finds, one of which should be the DAT. There needs to be support in the kernel for the SCSI tape device 'st'. Once this is all OK then you can access a tape in the DAT using the 'mt' command (do a 'man mt' to figure this out). You should be able to tar some files to a tape and retrieve them in another directory to verify that reading and writing the tape work OK. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DAT tape
I have an dat tape drive om my debian 3.0r1 server... How i can mount? How i can use cron to make backups? There an frontend backup soft? thks
Re: DAT tape
GBV said on Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 02:18:38PM -0300: I have an dat tape drive om my debian 3.0r1 server... How i can mount? You don't mount tapes. Instead, you use tools (like tar) to pull archives off of them. From the operating systems perspective, the tape is just a file (/dev/nst0, for example). How i can use cron to make backups? You can write a small shell script using find and tar, and then run it out of cron. However... There an frontend backup soft? AMANDA might be more of what you're looking for. It's not exactly frontend, but it's _really_ good. Look for the packages amanda-client, amanda-server, and you can read documentation at http://amanda.org. M msg30569/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: DAT tape
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 14:18:38 -0300 GBV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an dat tape drive om my debian 3.0r1 server... How i can mount? You don't need to, you just read/write to the device. e.g. tar cvf /dev/nst0 /home How i can use cron to make backups? There an frontend backup soft? Check out amanda James -- James Tappin, O__ I forget the punishment for using [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- \/`Microsoft --- Something lingering http://www.tappin.me.uk/with data loss in it I fancy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DAT tape
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 10:18, GBV wrote: I have an dat tape drive om my debian 3.0r1 server... How i can mount? I don't think you can mount a tape - not so you can browse it, anyway. How i can use cron to make backups? There an frontend backup soft? Amanda does the job for me. It's free, and it works. http://www.amanda.org -- glenn english [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SCSI card DAT tape drive
I installed Woody yesterday on my PC. Everything seems okay except for the fact that I can't access my DAT tape drive. On Potato it was seen immediately and I expected the same with Woody but it does not see it. All my work stuff is back-upped on the the DAT tape and I need to get it back on the hard drive as quickly as possible. I followed the normal installation procedure but cannot remember that I have anywhere seen any reference to SCSI devices. What is the easiest way to solve this problem? Thanks Johan van der Walt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SCSI card DAT tape drive
On Friday 08 November 2002 10:07 pm, Johan van der Walt wrote: I installed Woody yesterday on my PC. Everything seems okay except for the fact that I can't access my DAT tape drive. On Potato it was seen immediately and I expected the same with Woody but it does not see it. All my work stuff is back-upped on the the DAT tape and I need to get it back on the hard drive as quickly as possible. I followed the normal installation procedure but cannot remember that I have anywhere seen any reference to SCSI devices. What is the easiest way to solve this problem? Thanks Johan van der Walt Hi Johan I've got a Sony DDS3 drive running on an Adaptec 2940 here under Woody, so it is definitely possible. Two things need to be working: SCSI and SCSI tape support. Have a look in /var/log/dmesg: (a) Does your SCSI adapter get detected ? - if not, you need to add support for your adapter to the kernel (b) Does the SCSI adapter recognise the tape drive ? - if not, this is likely to be a cabling or setup problem, which is unlikely if all that has happened is a software upgrade (c) Does the tape drive get recognised by the kernel ? (look for st0) - if not, you need to add SCSI tape support to the kernel HTH - Derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SCSI card DAT tape drive
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Re: SCSI card DAT tape drive
Inspection of /var/log/dmesg suggests that the SCSI card is not seen. How do I add SCSI support to the kernel? Johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SCSI card DAT tape drive
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 12:59:15PM +0200, Johan van der Walt wrote: Inspection of /var/log/dmesg suggests that the SCSI card is not seen. How do I add SCSI support to the kernel? The module depends on your SCSI card modprobe module_name Philippe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SCSI card DAT tape drive
Thanks, but where do I get the module for the scsi adapter? Adaptec 2940. I looked in /lib/modules but could not find anything there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SCSI card DAT tape drive
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 01:46:08PM +0200, Johan van der Walt wrote: Thanks, but where do I get the module for the scsi adapter? Adaptec 2940. The module you need is aic7xxx Frank I looked in /lib/modules but could not find anything there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SCSI card DAT tape drive
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 01:46:08PM +0200, Johan van der Walt wrote: Thanks, but where do I get the module for the scsi adapter? Adaptec 2940. I looked in /lib/modules but could not find anything there. It should be in /lib/modules/kernel-version/kernel/drivers/scsi/ try 'modprobe aic7xxx', if the driver does not exist you may need to compile your own kernel to activate the support. Philippe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DAT TAPE ?
Raymond A. Ingles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 17 Feb 1999, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: I have the opportunity to get a used DAT tape, a Digital DEC TLZ 06 it uses the standard Sony 4 mm audio tapes, 90 m lenght. Is it usable with Linux ? What software do I need apart the SCSI-tape support in the kernel ? It should be usable, no problem. All the standard applications like tar, cpio, and mt should work fine. I've never used it, but a lot of people swear by BRU, a commercial backup program, but it's not required by any means. taper, kbackup (unstable), amanda are all-in-one free solutions. (I guess this list is not complete). HTH, Jens --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 2048/E451C639 Jens Ritter Key fingerprint: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37
DAT TAPE ?
I have the opportunity to get a used DAT tape, a Digital DEC TLZ 06 it uses the standard Sony 4 mm audio tapes, 90 m lenght. Is it usable with Linux ? What software do I need apart the SCSI-tape support in the kernel ? Pf -- --- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx| http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.1 #1 Sun Feb 14 21:32:41 CET 1999 i586 unknown
Re: DAT TAPE ?
On 17 Feb 1999, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: I have the opportunity to get a used DAT tape, a Digital DEC TLZ 06 it uses the standard Sony 4 mm audio tapes, 90 m lenght. Is it usable with Linux ? What software do I need apart the SCSI-tape support in the kernel ? It should be usable, no problem. All the standard applications like tar, cpio, and mt should work fine. I've never used it, but a lot of people swear by BRU, a commercial backup program, but it's not required by any means. Sincerely, Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735[EMAIL PROTECTED] Suffering is good for the soul, but it is usually best to wait until the body has no choice in the matter. - Stephen Donaldson
Amanda tape settings for HP DDS2 DAT tape
Hi, the amanda lists listed on www.amanda.org seem to be not
available, so I'll ask here.
Basically, all the Amanda docs have to say about this particular tape
drive, as far as the proper settings are concerned are:
define tapetype HP-DAT {
comment DAT tape drives
length 1900 mbytes # these numbers are not accurate
filemark 100 kbytes # but you get the idea
speed 500 kbytes
}
No, I don't get the idea - I'd prefer accurate numbers. Anyone got
any ideas?
Thanks,
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