Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Server Fault. Closed 9 years ago. Improve this question I bought a HP BL532A MSL4048 1 LTO-5 ULTRIUM 3280 FC 48-SLOT TAPE LIBRARY I have a few quick questions: What is the … Read more
I am looking for advice rather then fix my issue. What should fibre channel port settings be? Currently F_ports, I have a qlogic 5800 sanbox switch connected to quantum scalar i40 lto7 library over fibre channel. My backup product P5, speeds backing up a NAS a rubbish, will never finish! If you have a backup … Read more
I’m trying to restore from tape and I am getting an error of incorrect block size. The software I used to backup is called BackupAssist and their support hasnt been the greatest. One weird thing I noticed, after updating the tape drive drivers the block size showed as 512 in the device manager. After running … Read more
We have a p series 650 that has a dds4 tape drive built-in. In the past, recover has been as simple as putting a mksysb tape into the drive and booting the machine. During boot, the machine detects that a tape is in the drive and goes into the restore setup. This all works well. … Read more
I have a Quantum Superloader 3 directly attached to a backup server running DPM 2012 R2 on Windows Server 2012 R2 fully updated. I have a problem where DPM keeps giving an event ID 3308: DPM could not reserve the drive resource because one of required drive resources is not online or it needs cleaning … Read more
We have an Ultrium internal tape drive to do monthly backups. Last week, in the middle of writing a tape, it ejected it with an input/output error and started flashing the cleaning light. Of course, no cleaning cartridge was about, so I ordered one. It arrived today; I inserted it into the drive–and nothing happened. … Read more
I’m re-purposing a Dell T430 server. It has an H730 connected to some disks for the OS and storage. It also has an H330, which I’m trying to use to connect an older Tandberg HH LTO4 tape drive. Unfortunately, I’m not having much luck. I can’t see drive in Windows Device Manager at all (Server … Read more
does anybody know something about the compatibility of an LTO 3 Tapedrive (PV HH LTO 3 400GB) attached to an LSI2032 SCSI-Controller? These devices are added to an Dell PowerEdge T610 Server which is listed in the certified Compatibility Guide. I can`t find any information for this controller and this tapdevice. Or are they automaticly … Read more
I’m trying to build IBM lin_tape module for a Ultrium LTO-5 tape device, but it’s failing The OS is a Centos 5.4 x.86_64 When I run: rpmbuild –rebuild lin_tape-1.76.0-1.src.rpm It outputs as follows: Installing lin_tape-1.76.0-1.src.rpm Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.42840 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD + LANG=C + export LANG + unset DISPLAY + cd … Read more
We have a server running incremental backups four times a week, and full backups once a week. It has been reporting hardware errors, intermittently but more frequently as of late: Error: The device reported an error on a request to read data from media. Error reported: Hardware failure. There may be a hardware or media … Read more
