Questions tagged [tape]
Questions about tape drives, robots, & media. Includes LTO, DAT, etc. Also consider tags such as /backup or for the backup system(s) you're using (/bacula, /amanda, /tar, etc.)
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PEOT EOM EOT Difference
I'm a little confusing about the tape options in Unix EOM (end of mark) EOT (end of tape) PEOT (physical end of tape) As I understand EOM is the the end of last file, but I have also some free tape ...
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Archiving stdout to multiple tapes
I have large files which are generated on the fly to stdout, one every 24hours. I would like to archive these files progressively on tapes, ideally in a single archive which potentially spans multiple ...
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How do I interpret the output from mt status?
I'm running mt version 2.13 on OpenSuse 15.5 with a Quantum DLT-4000 tape drive. When I run mt -f /dev/st0 status I get the following output: drive type = 114 drive status = 419430400 sense key error =...
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Alternatives to compressed tarballs
I am reading/writing data from/to tapes using Debian and recently ran into an issue where I needed to figure out the size of the stored data stream, i.e. the data actually written to the tape (see ...
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HP 1/8 G2 medium changer not detected in Oracle Linux 8
I have a HP 1x8 G2 Autoloader that connected to a SAN switch, on my VMware environment I have an Oracle Linux that should work with the tape. The problem is after connecting tape to VM, medium changer ...
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What is the simplest way to send data to a tape library?
I am looking for the simplest (feasible) way to push data away on a tape library. This is for archiving finalized, immutable datasets that only need to be retrieved in case of a catastrophic failure ...
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Using Linux to read DDS-2 tape written under Solaris
I'm dealing with a couple of DDS-2 tapes, the owner of which says they were written long ago on a Solaris workstation, but I'm trying to read them in a Linux environment, since with other tapes I've ...
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find out how many (posix) tar header blocks a file will require
Posix (pax) tar uses extended headers to allow long filenames etc.. Is there a way to find out how many 512 byte blocks will be used for the header for a particular file (before actually running the ...
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