Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-17 Thread Oliver Fromme
Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Cheap controller in the USB enclosure. I've used quite > > a few USB enclosures in the past years, and there are > > significant performance differences. As a rule of thumb, > > the cheaper the box, the slower it is. Of course there > > are exc

Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-17 Thread Robert Huff
Oliver Fromme writes: > > > > you must have something wrong. my USB drive gets 27MB/s. yes this > > > > 480Mbit/s is USB isn't real, but half of it is. > > > > i simply have no idea why it could work so slow. > > Cheap controller in the USB enclosure. I've used quite > a few USB e

Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Cheap controller in the USB enclosure. I've used quite a few USB enclosures in the past years, and there are significant performance differences. As a rule of thumb, the cheaper the box, the slower it is. Of course there are exceptions to that rule. actually - firewire enclosures are not much

Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-17 Thread Oliver Fromme
Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > you must have something wrong. my USB drive gets 27MB/s. yes this > > > 480Mbit/s is USB isn't real, but half of it is. > > > > I agree. > > Want to take this private and help figure out what's wrong? > > :-) > > i sim

Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
you must have something wrong. my USB drive gets 27MB/s. yes this 480Mbit/s is USB isn't real, but half of it is. I agree. Want to take this private and help figure out what's wrong? :-) i simply have no idea why it could work so slow. ___

Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-17 Thread Robert Huff
Wojciech Puchar writes: > >I /do/ have problems with speed. The fast recorded throughput > > was aroud 3.5 bytes/second; faster than the SCSI-1 DLT it replaces, > > you must have something wrong. my USB drive gets 27MB/s. yes this > 480Mbit/s is USB isn't real, but half of it is.

Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-17 Thread Robert Huff
Wojciech Puchar writes: Wojciech Puchar writes: > > Do the tapes get taken off-site, or do they sit in the same > > location that the servers will burn when a fire breaks out? > > probably sits on place, if not he wouldn't need tape changer, but > would chang

Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: - monthly - yearly ...cycle them in that manner. No matter what anyone says, experience states that I will bet on my monthly and yearly tapes as opposed to hard disk every time when the CFO is under pressure to get that directory that was 'o

Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Do the tapes get taken off-site, or do they sit in the same location that the servers will burn when a fire breaks out? probably sits on place, if not he wouldn't need tape changer, but would change manually :) ...not always. A tape changer in some cases i

Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Do the tapes get taken off-site, or do they sit in the same location that the servers will burn when a fire breaks out? probably sits on place, if not he wouldn't need tape changer, but would change manually :) Once the network backup is complete, cycle this complete backup to tape

Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
and six incremental backups. I have had no problems with reliability. I /do/ have problems with speed. The fast recorded throughput was aroud 3.5 bytes/second; faster than the SCSI-1 DLT it replaces, you must have something wrong. my USB drive gets 27MB/s. yes this 480Mbit/s is U

Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-16 Thread Steve Bertrand
Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: I run FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE on a file server and until recently used a Tape Changer for backups. I'm considering my options for a new backup solution. I'm actually thinking of ditching tape and using an externally attached USB or Firewire disk drive. Do

Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-16 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Jun 16, 2008, at 7:34 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jun 16, 2008, at 3:59 PM, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: External drives make nice, fast external hot-standby backups. They are lousy for making long-term backups that you can take offsite, though. I can and have restored decade old 20

Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-16 Thread Robert Huff
Christopher Sean Hilton writes: > I run FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE on a file server and until recently used a > Tape Changer for backups. I'm considering my options for a new backup > solution. I'm actually thinking of ditching tape and using an > externally attached USB

Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 16, 2008, at 3:59 PM, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote: I run FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE on a file server and until recently used a Tape Changer for backups. I'm considering my options for a new backup solution. I'm actually thinking of ditching tape and using an externally attac

Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.

2008-06-16 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
I run FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE on a file server and until recently used a Tape Changer for backups. I'm considering my options for a new backup solution. I'm actually thinking of ditching tape and using an externally attached USB or Firewire disk drive. My experimentation isn't

Dell 29x0: DAT tape drive goes missing under 6.3...

2008-04-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
0 bus 1: at scbus1 target 6 lun 0 (sa0,pass1) scbus-1 on xpt0 bus 0: < > at scbus-1 target -1 lun -1 (xpt0) On one system which I've just updated from 6.1 to 6.3, the tape drive has disappeared: # camcontrol devlist -v scbus

Re: How can I access video tape under FBSD?

2008-04-17 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 20:28 +0200, Frank Wißmann wrote: > Hi, folks! > I have bought for myself a taperecorder-to-usb-connector, which I wrote > in /etc/usbd.conf as following: > Device "Video tape" > Product "0x2821" > Vendor "0xeb1a" > >

Re: How can I access video tape under FBSD?

2008-04-16 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 16 April 2008 22:11:16 Roland Smith wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 08:28:30PM +0200, Frank Wißmann wrote: > > Hi, folks! > > I have bought for myself a taperecorder-to-usb-connector, which I wrote > > in /etc/usbd.conf as following: > > Device "

Re: How can I access video tape under FBSD?

2008-04-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 08:28:30PM +0200, Frank Wißmann wrote: > Hi, folks! > I have bought for myself a taperecorder-to-usb-connector, which I wrote in > /etc/usbd.conf as following: > Device "Video tape" > Product "0x2821" > Vendor "0xeb1a"

How can I access video tape under FBSD?

2008-04-16 Thread Frank Wißmann
Hi, folks! I have bought for myself a taperecorder-to-usb-connector, which I wrote in /etc/usbd.conf as following: Device "Video tape" Product "0x2821" Vendor "0xeb1a" Now I want to move all of my archived video tapes to harddisk/DVD. How can I perform this,

How to recover a tape device?

2008-04-04 Thread perikillo
Hi people. I have 1 tape device attached to a FreeBSD 6.2-Release box for bacula, sometimes i lost the connection with the device, doesn't answer me, this happend not to often, but nothing is perfect, my doubt is: Once my console say: Apr 4 12:25:46 bacula kernel: <<<<<&l

Re: SATA Tape drive

2008-03-11 Thread Kent Hauser
On the quantum web site, the internal DAT72 drives are choice of SATA, USB, or SCSI. SATA listed first. The SATA drive part # is CD72SH-SB. I'd love to not have to use the internal SCSI cabling for replacement. But of course, I'd also like it to work. Hence the query. Kent ___

Re: SATA Tape drive

2008-03-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
to use a SATA replacement. Will this work? I have never seen a DAT drive on a SATA controller. Do they make them? i found only SCSI and USB in Poland. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Re: SATA Tape drive

2008-03-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:22:09AM -1000, Kent Hauser wrote: > Hi, > > I need to replace a failed DAT72 drive. My current one is SCSI, but I'd like > to use a SATA replacement. Will this work? I have never seen a DAT drive on a SATA controller. Do they make them? jerry > > Thanks. Kent >

SATA Tape drive

2008-03-10 Thread Kent Hauser
Hi, I need to replace a failed DAT72 drive. My current one is SCSI, but I'd like to use a SATA replacement. Will this work? Thanks. Kent ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubs

SATA Tape drive

2008-03-10 Thread Kent Hauser
Hi, I need to replace a failed DAT72 drive. My current one is SCSI, but I'd like to use a SATA replacement. Will this work? Thanks. Kent ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubs

Re: tape splitter

2008-02-25 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Saturday 23 February 2008 01:41:09 Peter Giessel wrote: > >>i know dump do this, but i need other thing to be written to more than > >> 1 tape. > > > >Well sonny in the old days we would create a volume with tar or cpio, > > then uuencode it, then run

Re: Re: tape splitter

2008-02-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
2. Outputs chunks in specified directory. You can configure it to write directly to tape, but it's not the best solution. 3. Can be configured to write only N chunks and after that wait for SIGUSR1 to write next. 4. Can be configured to write MD5-digest of every piece in separate file.

Re: tape splitter

2008-02-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
uuencode it, then run it through split. You could then move the split pieces onto removable media and reassemble it on another system. To put split piece back together you just cat them: cat split2 split2 > total.uu then uudecode it to restore the original file. i know this but it makes tempo

Re: tape splitter

2008-02-22 Thread Peter Giessel
en >> >>concattapes /dev/sa0 |something >> >> >>i know dump do this, but i need other thing to be written to more than 1 tape. > >Well sonny in the old days we would create a volume with tar or cpio, then >uuencode it, then run it through split. I believe

Re: tape splitter

2008-02-22 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:23 PM 2/22/2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: anybody know program to split data (from stdin) on tapes like that something|splittotapes /dev/sa0 and then concattapes /dev/sa0 |something i know dump do this, but i need other thing to be written to more than 1 tape. Well sonny in the old

tape splitter

2008-02-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
anybody know program to split data (from stdin) on tapes like that something|splittotapes /dev/sa0 and then concattapes /dev/sa0 |something i know dump do this, but i need other thing to be written to more than 1 tape. ___ freebsd-questions

Problems with my tape drive.

2007-12-03 Thread perikillo
I have been working with this tapa drive: HP StorageWorks Ultrium 232 Tape Drive With FreeBSD 6.1-p16 and my scsi card is: aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=6, 32/253 SCBs I have running bacula since 1.38.10 with this tape drive, the i update to 1.38.11 not to many changes, more than a

Re: Exabyte VXA tape drives - anyone using?

2007-09-27 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Run it through strace(1) and ktrace(1) in Linux and see what devices it talks to in /dev and see if they can be emulated. It's probably talking to /dev/ns{r,a}0 and /dev/ch0, depending on udev/autodev/ foo-bar-latest-greatest linux framework. You might also check the Amanda/Bacula list archives.

Exabyte VXA tape drives - anyone using?

2007-06-27 Thread Rob
Hi All, We have an Exabyte VXA-2 tape drive that I'm planning to hook up to a FreeBSD server. It's been on different box running linux for a few years. Wondering if anyone has tried to run the "vxaTool" utility for this drive using Linux emulation on FreeBSD? It's

Re: how many data can i write to my tape, how to tested?

2007-06-03 Thread perikillo
On 6/2/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 28/05/07, perikillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm running bacula 1.38.11 with one tape storage-works 232 200Gb. . . . > Them, he says that my tape is full, but calculating all clients, is > about 181G

Re: how many data can i write to my tape, how to tested?

2007-06-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 28/05/07, perikillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm running bacula 1.38.11 with one tape storage-works 232 200Gb. . . . Them, he says that my tape is full, but calculating all clients, is about 181GB, them why hi say that my tape is full? For raw capacity multiply the

Re: how many data can i write to my tape, how to tested?

2007-05-28 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 28), perikillo said: >I'm running bacula 1.38.11 with one tape storage-works 232 200Gb. > But i start to get some errors about "Tape Full" like this: > > 28-May 04:30 bacula-dir: Start Backup JobId 1409, > Job=MBXDBA-FD.2007-05-28_04.3

how many data can i write to my tape, how to tested?

2007-05-28 Thread perikillo
Hi people. I'm running bacula 1.38.11 with one tape storage-works 232 200Gb. But i start to get some errors about "Tape Full" like this: 28-May 04:30 bacula-dir: Start Backup JobId 1409, Job=MBXDBA-FD.2007-05-28_04.30.00 28-May 06:18 bacula-sd: End of Volume "FullTa

Re: Tape Capacity Used?

2007-05-19 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 19), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I am trying to calculate how much of the space on my tape has been used. > > This is what I have done, and I want to make sure I barking up the > right tree before going too far. > > Move the tape to the end of the data. (

Tape Capacity Used?

2007-05-19 Thread jhall
I am trying to calculate how much of the space on my tape has been used. This is what I have done, and I want to make sure I barking up the right tree before going too far. Move the tape to the end of the data. (mt eod). Find the logical block location of the drive (mt rdspos). /dev/nsa0

LoaderXpress tape drive

2007-04-04 Thread Chris Kottaridis
Well, I have had a Overland LoaderXpress DLT-1 that's been working fine for many years. But, it seems the Benchmark DLT-1 tape drive in it has finally given out. Anyone have any ideas where one might get a refurbished or otherwise working Benchmark DLT-1 tape drive that will fit into the Ove

Re: Ultrium 448 Tape Drive

2007-02-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 06:47:23PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >From what I have read, I think the Ultrium tape drive is completely > compatible with FreeBSD. If I am understanding the specs correctly, it > uses hardware compression to compress data. And, again if I am >

Re: Ultrium 448 Tape Drive

2007-02-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 21, 2007, at 10:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From what I have read, I think the Ultrium tape drive is completely compatible with FreeBSD. If I am understanding the specs correctly, it uses hardware compression to compress data. And, again if I am understanding everything correctly

Ultrium 448 Tape Drive

2007-02-21 Thread jhall
>From what I have read, I think the Ultrium tape drive is completely compatible with FreeBSD. If I am understanding the specs correctly, it uses hardware compression to compress data. And, again if I am understanding everything correctly, I should be able to use the mt command to tell the t

Re: Quantum tape drives?

2007-02-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
Reuben A. Popp wrote: > Does anyone know (or work with) if the LTO-3 tape drives from Quantum are > supported? These are Ultra 160 SCSI drives as far as I know. SCSI Tape drives are supported, yes. Bus speed, tape capacity, manufacturer etc. doesn't really have a great deal of

Quantum tape drives?

2007-02-08 Thread Reuben A. Popp
Hello everyone, Does anyone know (or work with) if the LTO-3 tape drives from Quantum are supported? These are Ultra 160 SCSI drives as far as I know. Thanks (again) in advance Reuben A. Popp -- Reuben A. Popp Systems Administrator Information Technology Department East Central College 1

Re: SCSI Tape Drive Problems

2006-12-27 Thread Mark Kane
the > [EMAIL PROTECTED] list. Thanks again for the responses. Before I bug scsi@, I have a little more information now that might help. I'll try to keep it simple. When using pax, both drives write more data and get further than before with cpio. The DLT (which previously gave those SCSI

Re: SCSI Tape Drive Problems

2006-12-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 20), Mark Kane said: > On Tue, Dec 19, 2006, at 23:16:45 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > > Timeouts and unexpected busfree errors like these are indicative of > > cabling or termination problems. I don't think DLTs auto-terminate, > > for example, so try putting an external ter

Re: SCSI Tape Drive Problems

2006-12-20 Thread Derek Ragona
-necessary hardware, use a minimal hardware setup. You should also run diagnostics from the drive manufacturer and verify the tape and drive. Last thing be sure to erase the tape before testing it. -Derek At 02:09 AM 12/20/2006, Mark Kane wrote: On Tue, Dec 19, 2006, at 23:16:45 -0600,

Re: SCSI Tape Drive Problems

2006-12-20 Thread Mark Kane
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006, at 23:16:45 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > Timeouts and unexpected busfree errors like these are indicative of > cabling or termination problems. I don't think DLTs auto-terminate, > for example, so try putting an external terminator on the 2nd plug on > the back of the unit (or

Re: SCSI Tape Drive Problems

2006-12-19 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
That's hardware, most likely scsi termination issues or cabling issues. I have seen these errors lots of times when using a high speed scsi controller on a tape drive. Sometimes you can play with the settings on the controller or flip switches on the drive to get things to work, sometime

Re: SCSI Tape Drive Problems

2006-12-19 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 19), Mark Kane said: > Hi everyone. I'm experiencing some problems with two tape drives > attached to this machine. Here is the situation: > > I then tried backing up the same 17GB directory to a Sun DLT 4000 > single tape unit with a 20GB/40GB tape

SCSI Tape Drive Problems

2006-12-19 Thread Mark Kane
Hi everyone. I'm experiencing some problems with two tape drives attached to this machine. Here is the situation: I first tried backing up 17GB of data using cpio to a six tape DDS-4 autoloader with a fresh 20GB/40GB Fuji tape. It stopped writing after about 9GB and gave the following

RE: SSH connection cut during dump on tape

2006-09-27 Thread Philippe Lang
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> While doing a backup on an HP Ultrium LTO1 tape, my ssh connection >> froze, and since then, I'm not able to use the tape device anymore. > > Presumably there is another instance of dump or whatever is > still running; try to kill -INT or ki

Re: SSH connection cut during dump on tape

2006-09-27 Thread Charles Swiger
On Sep 27, 2006, at 5:25 PM, Philippe Lang wrote: While doing a backup on an HP Ultrium LTO1 tape, my ssh connection froze, and since then, I'm not able to use the tape device anymore. Presumably there is another instance of dump or whatever is still running; try to kill -INT or kill

SSH connection cut during dump on tape

2006-09-27 Thread Philippe Lang
Hi, While doing a backup on an HP Ultrium LTO1 tape, my ssh connection froze, and since then, I'm not able to use the tape device anymore. xeon# mt -f /dev/nsa0 rewind mt: /dev/nsa0: Device busy xeon# dump -0uaL -f /dev/nsa0 /dev/da0s1a DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Wed Sep 27 23:

Re: tar dies on making tape backup

2006-07-26 Thread Derek Ragona
I use the ASCII headers for portability incase I need to restore to another server with a different tar version. -Derek At 06:29 PM 7/25/2006, Jaime wrote: On Jul 25, 2006, at 9:03 AM, Derek Ragona wrote: Using tar with a SDLT I set the blocksize at 1024 and use ASCII headers (-c)

Re: tar dies on making tape backup

2006-07-25 Thread Jaime
On Jul 25, 2006, at 9:03 AM, Derek Ragona wrote: Using tar with a SDLT I set the blocksize at 1024 and use ASCII headers (-c) Thanks for the advice. I hadn't thought about block size. Why do you use the ASCII headers? Jaime

Re: tar dies on making tape backup

2006-07-25 Thread Derek Ragona
Using tar with a SDLT I set the blocksize at 1024 and use ASCII headers (-c) -Derek At 05:18 PM 7/24/2006, Jaime wrote: I'm attempting to use tar to feed my filesystem(s) to a DLT tape drive. I've done this with FreeBSD 3 through 5 and DAT (DDS-3 and DDS-4) tapes

Re: tar dies on making tape backup

2006-07-25 Thread Jaime
On Jul 24, 2006, at 10:23 PM, Micah wrote: To save you some time, from my notes: #finds all files modified before 1971 find / ! -newermt "1971-01-01 20:30" I missed the part about "!" in the command. Thanks for the reply. I would have been at this for at least an hour of, "What the heck?

Re: tar dies on making tape backup

2006-07-24 Thread Micah
Jaime wrote: On Jul 24, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Micah wrote: I had the same problem recently and Google told me to look for files with malformed dates. I used "find" to search for files dated before Jan 1, 1970, and found one dated 1901. As soon as I "touch"ed the problematic file, tar worked.

Re: tar dies on making tape backup

2006-07-24 Thread Jaime
On Jul 24, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Micah wrote: I had the same problem recently and Google told me to look for files with malformed dates. I used "find" to search for files dated before Jan 1, 1970, and found one dated 1901. As soon as I "touch"ed the problematic file, tar worked. Many thanks.

Re: tar dies on making tape backup

2006-07-24 Thread Micah
Jaime wrote: I'm attempting to use tar to feed my filesystem(s) to a DLT tape drive. I've done this with FreeBSD 3 through 5 and DAT (DDS-3 and DDS-4) tapes for years. The command now appears to work for a while and then dies with this message about 2.5 hours into t

tar dies on making tape backup

2006-07-24 Thread Jaime
I'm attempting to use tar to feed my filesystem(s) to a DLT tape drive. I've done this with FreeBSD 3 through 5 and DAT (DDS-3 and DDS-4) tapes for years. The command now appears to work for a while and then dies with this message about 2.5 hours into t

Sysinstall and my tape conflic?

2006-07-22 Thread perikillo
Hi people, i was installing FreeBSD 6-1, do the world stuff and all that process, normally went my system is runnig i no more use the sysinstall program. Im going to test bacula 1.38.11 with the tape HP storageworks 232. I was installing some ports that i going to test on this machine and i

Re: Tape drive options and suggestions

2006-07-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Good morning all, > > I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions as to a tape backup solution > that carries the most bang for the buck. The ideal would be: > > * LTO-3 > * Works with Bacula or similar and 6.x > * Autochanger > * Ability to handle

Tape drive options and suggestions

2006-07-12 Thread Reuben A. Popp
Good morning all, I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions as to a tape backup solution that carries the most bang for the buck. The ideal would be: * LTO-3 * Works with Bacula or similar and 6.x * Autochanger * Ability to handle 30-40 heterogeneous servers of varying size All

Re: Question in occasion of SCSI devices (the tape store)

2006-06-09 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Nick wrote: thanks for help Alex I found the best way for me to write info to the tape. Can You answered on the last question How can I see free size on the tape or size what I filled? My experience is that you can't really do either. If anyone know better, I'd be glad to know

Re[2]: Question in occasion of SCSI devices (the tape store)

2006-06-09 Thread Nick
Çäðàâñòâóéòå, Alex. Âû ïèñàëè 8 èþíÿ 2006 ã., 17:18:59: > Nick wrote: >>The tape is new and empty and I don't know what way is more likely for >>me may be You can give me Your advice what way I should choose for >>copy my information daily? >> >>

Re: Question in occasion of SCSI devices (the tape store)

2006-06-08 Thread Bob Goodman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >Help please with connection sa0 devices. >I try to make the following: >mount/dev/sa0/mnt/type >The system gives out: >Block device required > >I can not understand that occurs. It is simple I the first time on >FreeBS

Re: Question in occasion of SCSI devices (the tape store)

2006-06-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
Nick wrote: Help please with connection sa0 devices. I try to make the following: mount/dev/sa0/mnt/type The system gives out: Block device required A tape drive isn't mountable as a filesystem because it is not a block device, ie, the tape drive is sequential access, not random access.

Re: Question in occasion of SCSI devices (the tape store)

2006-06-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Nick wrote: The tape is new and empty and I don't know what way is more likely for me may be You can give me Your advice what way I should choose for copy my information daily? (You should copy freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org on your replies). It depends. If you are just writing some

Re: Question in occasion of SCSI devices (the tape store)

2006-06-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Nick wrote: What is it you are actually trying to do? Read the tape? Write something to it? Perform backups? Without that basic information it's hard to actually help. I try to build reserve copy of information on it actually I want read and write information on it And what form

Re: Question in occasion of SCSI devices (the tape store)

2006-06-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Nick wrote: Help please with connection sa0 devices. I try to make the following: mount/dev/sa0/mnt/type The system gives out: Block device required I can not understand that occurs. It is simple I the first time on FreeBSD work with tape stores Why are you trying to mount a tape as if it

Question in occasion of SCSI devices (the tape store)

2006-06-08 Thread Nick
Help please with connection sa0 devices. I try to make the following: mount/dev/sa0/mnt/type The system gives out: Block device required I can not understand that occurs. It is simple I the first time on FreeBSD work with tape stores -- Nick mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

HP tape backup

2006-05-25 Thread Efren Bravo
Hi, Would I want if somebody has tested the HP StorageWorks DAT 72 USB Tape Drive on the freeBSD or something similar? http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Home.jsp?&lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=12169&prodSeriesId=501423&submit.y=0&submit.x=0&lang=en&cc

Re: Tape backup / Bizzare Device Question

2006-05-12 Thread Atom Powers
Graham Bentley said: > Is there a way to create a hdd resore solution with > set of boot floppies that will support my tape drive > access the tape and restore the entire hard disc in > case of disc failure disaster ? ie So I could install > a new disc and be up and running wi

Re: Tape backup / Bizzare Device Question

2006-05-12 Thread Greg Putrich
s that will support my tape drive > access the tape and restore the entire hard disc in > case of disc failure disaster ? ie So I could install > a new disc and be up and running without doing any > additional admin? I guess like a 'ghost' for scsi tape ? > > Any advice

SCSI Tape Log Question

2006-05-10 Thread Graham Bentley
Although my backup appears to work fine I get this in the security log ... +(sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): 16384-byte tape record bigger than supplied buffer +(sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): PREVENT ALLOW MEDIUM REMOVAL. CDB: 1e 0 0 0 0 0 +(sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error +(sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): SCSI Status

Re: How do I swap tape drives (sa0) without rebooting?

2006-04-28 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list. I have a freebsd 6.1-RC1 machine that I am using to test bacula and various tape drives. If the machine boots up while the tape drive is attached and powered up, the tape drive is recognized. If I turn off the tape drive and attach a different drive, I

How do I swap tape drives (sa0) without rebooting?

2006-04-26 Thread fbsd
Hello list. I have a freebsd 6.1-RC1 machine that I am using to test bacula and various tape drives. If the machine boots up while the tape drive is attached and powered up, the tape drive is recognized. If I turn off the tape drive and attach a different drive, I cannot seem to convince the OS

Re: How to read a damaged tape

2006-04-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a SLR 100 tape drive (SCSI interface) and a tape cartridge with > 4 files. > > The first file is damaged so I cannot mt fsf over that file to read > the others. > > Is there a secret way to to advance the tape by a

How to read a damaged tape

2006-04-06 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I have a SLR 100 tape drive (SCSI interface) and a tape cartridge with 4 files. The first file is damaged so I cannot mt fsf over that file to read the others. Is there a secret way to to advance the tape by a certain number of meters, or by a certain number of seconds or something. I know

Re: scsi tape drives

2006-03-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > According to FAQ 4.3.3, SCSI tape drives are supported. I'm looking at > getting a Dell PowerVault 124T Autoloader LTO-3 system. > > This product has an Ultra-2 SCSI interface, can I reasonably assume > that I can run this machine via a FreeBSD system and it will work?

Re: scsi tape drives

2006-03-27 Thread John Cruz
There shouldn't be any issues with it, bacula should do the trick nicely. Mohan Singh wrote: According to FAQ 4.3.3, SCSI tape drives are supported. I'm looking at getting a Dell PowerVault 124T Autoloader LTO-3 system. This product has an Ultra-2 SCSI interface, can I reasonably ass

scsi tape drives

2006-03-27 Thread Mohan Singh
According to FAQ 4.3.3, SCSI tape drives are supported. I'm looking at getting a Dell PowerVault 124T Autoloader LTO-3 system. This product has an Ultra-2 SCSI interface, can I reasonably assume that I can run this machine via a FreeBSD system and it will work? I am aware that I might

Re: Tape backup / Bizzare Device Question

2006-03-07 Thread DAve
Graham Bentley wrote: Is there a way to create a hdd resore solution with set of boot floppies that will support my tape drive access the tape and restore the entire hard disc in case of disc failure disaster ? ie So I could install a new disc and be up and running without doing any

Re: Tape backup / Bizzare Device Question

2006-03-07 Thread David Scheidt
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 02:09:40PM -, Graham Bentley wrote: > > Description: Glass bulb, similar to light bulb but with > narrow end flared at bootom so it standsup. Inside, > a rotating wire device that has 4 squares of card like > material attached, like vanes. > > One one side they are

Tape backup / Bizzare Device Question

2006-03-07 Thread Graham Bentley
Is there a way to create a hdd resore solution with set of boot floppies that will support my tape drive access the tape and restore the entire hard disc in case of disc failure disaster ? ie So I could install a new disc and be up and running without doing any additional admin? I guess like a

Re: Help on Tape Backups / Disc Space

2006-02-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Graham Bentley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Do you even know for sure that your backup was running at the > > time that the filesystem full messages were generated? > > Unfortunatly not - the times are different so this could two > unrelated issues. That's exactly the point. > > Maybe.

Re: Help on Tape Backups / Disc Space

2006-02-07 Thread Graham Bentley
Thanks for the reply Lowell. > Are you just guessing here, or do you have a reason to think this is > happening? Not sure what you mean? I cut and paste the logs so clearly there is something happening i.e. a reason for those messages? > A quick look at flexbackup makes me think that it uses > v

Re: Help on Tape Backups / Disc Space

2006-02-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Graham Bentley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can any one comment on the below ; > > candle# df -H > Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a260M 37M202M15%/ > devfs 1.0k1.0k 0B 100%/dev > /dev/ar0s1d116G 96G 1

Help on Tape Backups / Disc Space

2006-02-06 Thread Graham Bentley
Hi All, Can any one comment on the below ; candle# df -H Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a260M 37M202M15%/ devfs 1.0k1.0k 0B 100%/dev /dev/ar0s1d116G 96G 11G90%/data /dev/ad0s1e260M 29k2

RE: Compaq Proliant DL360 Quantum DLT4000 Tape Drive

2006-02-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Compaq had a lot of problems getting the windows ida driver to work with tape drives, as a matter of fact, and still won't guarentee it unless it's a compaq tape drive that was specifically sold with the server originally. We have lots of Compaq servers with tape drives, none of the t

Re: Compaq Proliant DL360 Quantum DLT4000 Tape Drive

2006-02-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
d by the BIOS as the machine boots) tape drive. I need to use it, but can find no evidence of this hardware in the dmesg output. I've googled around and really all I can locate are references to CAM, the aacp driver compiled in the kernel, and device.hints. Can someone put this all together for m

Compaq Proliant DL360 Quantum DLT4000 Tape Drive

2006-02-02 Thread RA Cohen
Hi All, I'm re-posting and re-framing this problem somewhat... I'm running several Compaq Proliant DL360 servers, all with FBSD 6.0-RELEASE. One of these has an internal Quantum DLT 4000 (that's how the BIOS identifies it -- I am seeing the drive ID'd by the BIOS as the

Re: information of how to use scsi tape drives...?

2005-10-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hi i want to know is someone of you knows about some links where i > can find some how-to use tapes drivers(scsi), thanks people. > > I try the man page, but get how to play with my tape... What sort of 'playing' do you want to do? If you just want to write to

information of how to use scsi tape drives...?

2005-10-21 Thread perikillo
Hi i want to know is someone of you knows about some links where i can find some how-to use tapes drivers(scsi), thanks people. I try the man page, but get how to play with my tape... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

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