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Hi Everyone, My name is Joe and I need some help from the Samba community. I have a need to be able to backup both Windows NT and AIX files using one IBM 3590 tape drive attached to a 7017-s80 running AIX 4.3.3. The files that I need to back up on the NT side are on a box that cannot be NFS mounted. It is essentially a "dumb box" with minimal configuration abilities. I am able to back up the files on the NT files from this "dumb" box to...

Hello! I'm having problems with udev /dev/tape/by-id/ symlinks.. it seems symlinks to tape drives are sometimes (randomly) missing after reboot. Server in question has IBM TS3200 tape library connected with 2 drives in it.. so /proc/scsi/scsi shows 3 devices: 2 tape drives, and 1 medium changer (tape library). So I should have 3 symlinks in...

Hi all, We have a bit of a problem with backups. We've been using bacula to tape and now trying to disk but it's a complete nightmare as regards tape management. The backup to file storage went ok for ages and now is stuck 'waiting for max storage jobs' which is odd as that's set to 20 and it's the only backup running. That's totally typical of bacul...

I am looking for a simple backup program that I can use to backup a CentOS box to a local tape drive. Hopefully someone here can give me a recommendation. This is what I need: - Simple launching of manual backups (preferably from the command line) - Ability to span tapes for a large backup - Proper treatment of hardlinked files - Notification via email or similar when...

...l. 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

Hi all, My only encounter with tape-backup was with Windows 2000. With it, when we backup things using windows' backup tool, it will create a 'catalog', then the catalog contains all the backup operations we do based on date. So, with this we can "append" many backups into one tape. Next time we want to resto...

Is it possible to share a tape drive using Samba. I have a tape drive that is attached to a Solaris box, that I would like to use to backup my entire environment; Solaris and Windows. If this is possible, how should I configure the smb.conf file. Thanks Nate Grissom ngrissom@netzero.net -------------- next part -------------- H...

CentOS 4.8 Hi All: We recently had a Sony SDX-500V tape drive fail on one of our servers running CentOS 4.8. I have now replaced it with a spare SDX-500C. The problem that I am having now is that the failed drive had ceased responding to SCSI commands and we have since rebooted the system which resulted in the tape drive being removed from our current h...

Hello, mtx and therefor amanda use generic device /dev/sg<x> for tape changer. These devices change on reboot. How to make them persistent? /dev/sch0 and /dev/sch1 seem to be persistent. /dev/tape/by-id/ shows links from WWID to generic device An UDEV rule could help? I have not found any example. -- Viele Gr??e Helmut Drodofsky Internet XS Service GmbH He?b...

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/sc...

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 success...

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 writing to the tape is pathetically slow. The specs say I should get around 80Mbyte/second - in reality - is about...

Hello, I have a server with a tape. Of course my dom0 see it but I don''t want to manage backups from dom0 and want to do it with a guest. In that case I need to show the tape to the guest. I don''t know how to do it. Is there more than one way? Thanks for your help, nm ____________________________________________...

Hello Ron, sounds good. I have 2 tape changer. I persume, udev creates the same link for both. Can I modify SYMLINK+="changer-$env{ID_SERIAL}" The serial should be unique. Viele Gr??e Helmut Drodofsky Internet XS Service GmbH He?br?hlstra?e 15 70565 Stuttgart Gesch?ftsf?hrung Helmut Drodofsky HRB 21091 Stuttgart USt.ID:...

How does everyone feel about using Quantum LTO 3 and 4 tapes with Bacula for backing up both the VM's, Host, as well as from within the VM's. What are know good backup solutions? Can anyone name specific tape drives / software that is working. Lee -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists....

...t has great specs. Each cartridge holds 160gb (non-compressed) and the drive costs about $420 but seems that with each removable cartridge costing $128, we may be limited to how many cartridges we could have, thus perhaps not retaining backup instances as long as I like. I asked about a HP DAT160 tape drive. Each tape holds 160gb (non-compressed) and the drive costs about $730, and each tape only costs about $24, so it would be economical to have lots of backup instances saved for a long period of time. I have been using tape and the backup rotation scheme mentioned above for over 20 years. T...

Hi Joe, What you can do is to tell the tape drive to not rewind after the first backup. You have to select the dedicated device for that. If my memory serves me, the device which does not rewind at backup end is /dev/rmt{x}.4 or something like that. So, the batch could be like this: tar cvf /dev/rmt{x}.4 myfiles_from_AIX smbclient ... -...

I have an Overland tape library connected, via SCSI card, to an out-of-box, full install of C5 install on an old PC. I have a script that uses tar to archive data to tape and mtx to change tapes. What I don't know, if possible, is to obtain the status of how much tape is left in the drive. If I get a write fail...

We're using RMAN to back up our 9.2 RAC database to an OCFS v1 volume. We have an existing shell script that we use for copying files from disk to tape via tar, one file at a time. (Don't ask why. It's a legacy script. Long story.) We're tweaking this script to use --o_direct when tarring the file to tape and that seems to be working fine: # tape device is /dev/nst0 $ tar --o_direct -cvf /dev/nst0 /ocfs/RMAN_test_file ./RMAN_test_fi...

...pears to be a pthreads problem, not scsi. Anyone care to look at it? ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 11:24:42 -0400 From: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Cc: Kern Sibbald <kern@sibbald.com> Subject: (Fwd) Lost data on FreeBSD tape I've been working with Kern Sibbald, author of Bacula (http://www.bacula.org/) to iron out a few nits on the FreeBSD port of the software. Below you'll find his latest attempts to isolate the problem. Attached is a small test program and how to produce the problem. Could someone else plea...