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Hello all. I have 15 or so CentOS servers (now v4.4, I will upgrade them all to 5 when it comes out) and a few windows machines. I am looking to implement a network backup solution using Amanda. I will be backing up 200 gig or so to start, but that will grow. Does anyone have any recommendations on tape drives that will work "out of the box" with CentOS? Thanks, Joe

Hello I do have problem using Linux with an external HP tape drive. The server platform is also an HP Server; the server is an HP ML350 G4, and the Tape drive is a HP Storage Works Ultrium 448 - 1U Rack-mountable. HP Ultrium documentation says two drivers should be automatically up, sym53c8xx for LSI SCSI interface "st" for tape and /proc/scsi/scsi should contain information about

Hello, After updating to 6.6 I've lost my connection to my tape library. Old log file (6.5): Sep 13 08:17:51 server1 kernel: scsi 1:2:0:0: Sequential-Access HP Ultrium 5-SCSI Z65W PQ: 0 ANSI: 6 Sep 13 08:17:51 server1 kernel: scsi 1:2:0:1: Medium Changer HP 1x8 G2 AUTOLDR 4.20 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 New log file (6.6): Oct 28 18:15:06 server1 kernel: scsi1 : hpsa Oct 28 18:15:06

I have Centos 5.2 and am trying to set up my first tape loader, a Quantum SuperLoader 3. My "cat /proc/scsi/scsi" outputs the following: Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: transtec Model: PV610F16R1C Rev: 373I Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 Vendor: HP Model: Ultrium

OK - I only have one tape drive but a real problem these days backing up. I ***may*** have connected the SCSI connector to the 'other' external connector when shifting stuff around in the rack. # cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: MegaRAID Model: LD 0 RAID5 69G Rev: 4.10 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02

Hi All, I have a Quantum scalar i40 tape library. I need to configure it to TWO tape partition libraries, e.g., library_a and library_b, so that each library has its own tape drive. Then connect this physical tape library to two different CentOS servers so that each server can see its own media changer and tape drive. I once had a successful configuration on one host but NOT on the other. One

Hi, I was backup up my laptop the other day, and the Windows backup utility said it was going to do about 17GB of data - and I was dumping this to a Samba share from my Linux machine. However, it looks like the data wrapped around when it got past 4GB. Not really sure what happened though. When I saw that the .bkf file was smaller (the next morning) that what a previous 'ls -l' showed

My apology for cross posting We have a DELL6850 with 8Gbytes of memory, four 3.2Ghz CPU's , perc 4 raid controller, with fourteen 300Gbyte 10Krpm disk on a powervault 220s, And a powervault 124T LTO-3 tape systems on a separate 160Mbyte/sec adaptec SCSI card. The disks are configured as two 2Tbyte raid 0 partitions using the perc 4 hardware. The problem is - reading from the disk, and

I am currently testing an Overland Tape storage unit with a LTO-3 drive on CentOS 4.4. After a random amount of time but usually when we have backed up about 0.5-1TB we get scsi errors which cause the backup to fail. I have rebuilt the box with Solaris 10 x86 and Windoze to prove the hardware and have successfully backed up over 3TB on each OS without error. Can anyone offer advice on how to find

I'm having speed problems with the SCSI card we're using to do tape backup. It seems to be functioning in 16 bit mode and the current thinking is that perhaps it's using a legacy driver instead of the correct one. The Adaptec site has a 'driver' for RHEL5 which I've downloaded and tried to install but it seems to have a problem installing on a CentOS-5 system. [root at

I want to keep track of how long a task is running. Thinking it wouldn't take that long, I opted not to run time before it. The fact that it is taking a long time, if I revisit the machine in the morning, what would be the best way to find out what time it ended? In this case, I'm using mt to erase an lto3 tape - sudo mt -f /dev/st0 erase. But I'd like to use the knowledge from

Hello all. I'm struggling to get Centos 4 to recognize my Dell Powervaul 132T tape changer. The system doesnt create a device node for it. [root at orion scotty]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: DAT DAT72-052 Rev: A060 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun:

This is probably going ot sound really dumb, but which packages need to be installed to have use of hte CA.pl script? I installed openssl, openssl-perl, etc, but can't seem to find it anywhere on my system.. Thanks!

Hi there i was wondering if anyone on this list has any comments on CPanel vs Plesk on Centos 4+? Looking for the one that best work with the "out of the box" RPMs for Centos. Thanks in advance! Dustin

Hi there... does anyone know of a handy iptables command to look at existing nat rules? I tried: iptables -t nat -L Which was close, but the problem is that the DNAT and SNAT list the reverse DNS for the IP's, when I would rather see just pure IP's. I have been reading the man pages and google looking for an answer as well. Thanks!

Hey there - I have a tutorial i wrote for my own docs - not sure if you guys want it on the centos wiki. It is a custom centos server 4X disk in which the install connects to a remote listening VNC viewer. The purpose of this disk is simple - to be able to install a second system with centos without having to hook up a keyboard/mouse/monitor. This second machine is my test machine, and I

So I thought I'd get a head start for next week - I have a low-power Linux box that has a few samba shares mounted, and limited hard disk space. This box is connected to a tape library via SCSI card. I want to find the best way to create a full, then incremental backup of the samba mounts, directly to tape. Some of the samba mounts are appliances that cannot run any special

Good day, I have a centos 4.4 box (all yumed up). Now i have a program that has a sub shell - meaning something like the mysql command line, where once started it takes it's own commands, etc and keeps running until a "quit" command is issued. Now what I was wondering - is there a way to fork it to the background (something like # command & or ctrl -z) and have the subshell keep

Hi, I need some help either in how to configure variables for wireframe(), or some suggestions as to other graphics commands to use for plotting a 2-D manifold in 3-D space. Here is an example I tried (in the hopes that it would plot a helical line) : xsp<-matrix(c(cos(seq(0,80)/5)),9,9) ysp<-matrix(c(sin(seq(0,80)/5)),9,9) zsp<-matrix(c((seq(0,80)/20)),9,9) wireframe(zsp~xsp*ysp)

Good day everyone. Today has been "one of those..." days. So I have a feeling this is just a brain lapse here. At any rate, I am setting up a firewall/router using centos 4.4 (minimal install, yummed up to date). I have in fact enables V4 ip forwarding (by editing /etc/sysctl.conf) and rebooted the system. I use fwbuilder for my rules, and at this point have a next to nothing set of