Re: [Bacula-users] 124t users?

2011-02-28 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
I'm interested to know about configs on the PV 124T too. I've got an LTO4 Quantum drive. clwbackup:/home/it# tapeinfo -f /dev/sg3 Product Type: Tape Drive Vendor ID: 'QUANTUM ' Product ID: 'ULTRIUM 4 ' Revision: '2210' Attached Changer API: No SerialNumber:

Re: [Bacula-users] 124t users?

2011-02-28 Thread Steve Ellis
On 2/28/2011 9:37 AM, Jeremiah D. Jester wrote: Steve, I’m using a 124t w/ LT04 tapes. I would appreciate if I could see your conf files for comparison. Gracias, JJ Jeremiah Jester Informatics Specialist Microbiology – Katze Lab 206-732-6185 Tapeinfo output for the LTO3 drive

Re: [Bacula-users] 124t users?

2011-02-28 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 28/02/11, Jeremiah D. Jester (jj...@u.washington.edu) wrote: We are considering switching to a different backup solution. Our problems seem similar, not fun. Well, my problem is specifically a tape drive problem. Have you tested your drive? # mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind # dd if=/dev/nst0

Re: [Bacula-users] 124t users?

2011-02-28 Thread Jeremiah D. Jester
@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] 124t users? On 28/02/11, Jeremiah D. Jester (jj...@u.washington.edu) wrote: We are considering switching to a different backup solution. Our problems seem similar, not fun. Well, my problem is specifically a tape drive problem. Have you tested

Re: [Bacula-users] 124t users?

2011-02-28 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Jeremiah D. Jester jj...@u.washington.edu wrote: Here's my output.. #test write. [root@scrappy bacula]# mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind [root@scrappy bacula]# mt -f /dev/nst0 weof [root@scrappy bacula]# dd if=/dev/nst0 of=/dev/null bs=64512 dd: reading `/dev/nst0':

Re: [Bacula-users] 124t users?

2011-02-28 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 5:33 PM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Jeremiah D. Jester jj...@u.washington.edu wrote: Here's my output.. #test write. [root@scrappy bacula]# mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind [root@scrappy bacula]# mt -f /dev/nst0 weof

Re: [Bacula-users] 124t users?

2011-02-28 Thread Rory Campbell-Lange
On 28/02/11, John Drescher (dresche...@gmail.com) wrote: On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 5:33 PM, John Drescher dresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Jeremiah D. Jester jj...@u.washington.edu wrote: Here's my output.. #test write. [root@scrappy bacula]# mt -f /dev/nst0

Re: [Bacula-users] 124t users?

2011-02-28 Thread John Drescher
John -- I'd be grateful for your comments on how best to do a dd based read and write test for LTO3 and LTO4 tapes. This seems like a fairly good way of narrowing down a drive or interconnect problem. Is something like the following correct?    mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind    dd if=/dev/sdx

Re: [Bacula-users] 124t users?

2011-02-28 Thread Seth Bardash
On 2/28/2011 3:50 PM, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote: On 28/02/11, John Drescher (dresche...@gmail.com) wrote: On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 5:33 PM, John Drescherdresche...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Jeremiah D. Jester jj...@u.washington.edu wrote: Here's my output.. #test

Re: [Bacula-users] 124t users?

2011-02-28 Thread mark . bergman
The pithy ruminations from Jeremiah D. Jester jj...@u.washington.edu on [Bacula-users] 124t users? were: = I've been having ongoing issues with bacula and my 124t. Anyone out there having any problems? If not, would like to know that as well. Maybe we can compare storage conf files? I've been

[Bacula-users] 124t users?

2011-02-25 Thread Jeremiah D. Jester
I've been having ongoing issues with bacula and my 124t. Anyone out there having any problems? If not, would like to know that as well. Maybe we can compare storage conf files? Thanks,JJ Jeremiah Jester Informatics Specialist Microbiology - Katze Lab 206-732-6185

Re: [Bacula-users] 124t users?

2011-02-25 Thread Steve Ellis
I've got a Dell 124T w/ an LTO3 drive (bought used for $800 on Ebay last year), and so far I've had no trouble (Bacula 5.0.3 w/ Fedora 14). I may not be a very heavy user, however, as I'm running it on a home network (clients are: Fedora 14, WinXP Win7-64)--sending ~1.5TB to tapes in a month