Questions tagged [tape]

Question 1

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 ...

Question 2

I am looking for any opensource software which is capable to create virtual tape library. I am aware of two such software like mhvtl and quadstor VTL. I tried both but the problem is that there is no ...

Question 3

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 ...

Question 4

My company has a dual Dell LTO-7 drive. I've recently discovered that it's possible to automatically back up to two tapes, sequentially: tar -cv --multi-volume --file=/dev/nst0 --file=/dev/nst1 ...

Question 5

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 =...

Question 6

My goal is to extract only the files in a list from an lto5 tape using tar. The data was originally written to the tape using tar as well. I am able to accomplish this task from a .tgz file by doing: ...

Question 7

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 ...

Question 8

I have a tape with a .tar.lzma archive written to it. How can I determine the size of the .tar.lzma archived as is? In other words, I'm looking to find the size of the compressed archive, not the size ...

Question 9

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 ...

Question 10

I just installed an Exabyte tape drive: $ lsscsi -g [11:0:0:0] process Marvell 91xx Config 1.01 - /dev/sg0 [12:0:1:0] cd/dvd TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-3401TA 0283 /dev/sr0 /dev/sg1 [...

Question 11

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 ...

Question 12

I would like to monitor statistics (transfer rate, byte/sec) for each LTO tape drive connected to Linux system. I understand that tapestat command can exactly do this, but this shows the activity of ...

Question 13

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 ...

Question 14

Background: I'm using LTO-8 tapes and my concern is that over time, the data on the tape can become corrupted and the goal that I am trying to accomplish is to use par2 to create the parity that I may ...

Question 15

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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Questions tagged [tape]

PEOT EOM EOT Difference

any opensource software to create virtual tape library

Archiving stdout to multiple tapes

Is there way to make tar execute a script when switching tape drives?

How do I interpret the output from mt status?

Extract a list of files from tape with tar

Alternatives to compressed tarballs

Read file size from tape

HP 1/8 G2 medium changer not detected in Oracle Linux 8

Tape readable with scsitape but not dd or tar, why?

What is the simplest way to send data to a tape library?

Monitoring the activity of tape drive with SCSI generic driver (sg)

Using Linux to read DDS-2 tape written under Solaris

How can I use par2 to mimick the parity of RAID arrays?

find out how many (posix) tar header blocks a file will require

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