If so, you can install the tape drive, driver and abckup software on that server. Main reason is to run a backup software in a kvm guest using the tape drive physically connected to the proxmox ve host. I tried easeus todo backup trial but that was painfully slow. Our setup includes hp storageworks sdlt 320 tape drive, microtech scsihd50 scsi bridge scsi to usb adapter, and modern linux ubuntu 18. The ease of configuring linux to support a tape drive depends on the linux distribution and version, the type of drive, the interface it uses, and whether the drive is present when linux is installed or is added later. An oracle secure backup user must be mapped to a linux or unix user that has readwrite permissions to the devsg devices. You need to use mt command while working with tape drive. Hp tape tools for drive information, troubleshooting diagnostics and firmware upgrades. External tape drive installation on red hat linux hewlett.
Details as to why this is the case can be found in the cciss. The tape driver sends a read variable command, asking for the size of the internal buffer of 32 kb. In less than thirty minutes xtalk will evaluate your tape drives health and determine if it needs to be sent in for service. If, after performing these steps the tape drive still isnt recognized, then check the bios of the scsi. Scsi tapes use the names devst0, devnst0, devst1, devnst1, and so on. Hp storageworks dat 72 external tape drive tape drive dat scsi overview and full product specs on cnet.
We have a tape library which is connected to a server by sas link. External tape drive installation on red hat linux i have an external hp storageworks ultrium 448 tape drive that i want to install on proliant ml 370 g5 server running red hat linux. Ive had a scsi hard drive, scsi tape drive, and cd rom working off an adaptec 29160 controller. Values for all of the general and modespecific scsi tape parameters up to linux version 2. Dat40 drive offers the capability to automatically switch between lowvoltage differential and singleended scsi interfaces for greater flexibility. Zdatdump can copy complete folders, automatically or with a schedule, for transport, backup, or archiving to tape drives. It can back up open files vss, make disk images and restore individual files. Jun 03, 2009 linux and other unixish system use mt command to control magnetic tape drive operation. How to properly configure a vmware esx virtual machine to use. Excellent security powervault lto4120 is the first drive in its class to offer devicelevel encryption. Options the first argument, given following f, is the scsi generic device corresponding to your tape drive. What software do you recommend for tape bckup on windows 10. We looked into openfiler, but it will not do scsi passthrough of nonblock devices, such as sequential access tape drives.
The scsi tape drive interface and driver is widely regarded as the most reliable, but, of course, scsi tape drives are also more expensive than others. Tape files index software for tape drives and libraries united states. Iperius backup is a reliable and easy to use tape backup software, compatible with server 2008 and server 2012, and with any tape drive dat, lto ultrium, ait, dlt, sdlt, scsi, sas, usb, etc. With a 6gb serial attached scsi sas interface, the powervault lto4120 leverages higher transfer rates over traditional scsi interfaces. Integrating a tape drive into a linux system tandberg. It is recommended to use scsitape only for software where youve written your own lowlevel read and write routines that use the scsi command set to directly talk to tape drives i. Datdss tape drives data storage product dat 72 support. Nov 06, 2001 the machine has an internal scsi dat drive. Tape backup software for windows 10 windows 10 forums. Ultra scsi tapes and data cartridge drives for sale ebay. Ideal for linux home users to easily backup all or parts of their system, provided they have an extra hard drive.
Products sold prior to the november 1, 2015 separation of hewlettpackard company into hewlett packard enterprise company and hp inc. The st scsi tape device driver in the linux kernel. It will also likely help to get the tape drive on the ups, which i think is the cause of the issue in the first place. Try lsmod or lsmod grep st to see if the st driver is loaded. Hp storageworks dat internal tape drive getting started guide. Resolved an issue in which the scsi hard drive could not be detected in a system configured with two u320 scsi hbas and a tape drive in obdr mode. Amanda network backup amanda is the most popular backup and archiving software that protects multiple machines running var. Attached scsi tape st0 at scsi0 channel 0 id 0, lun 0 if the device doesnt show up when running either command, then you can force the driver to rescan the scsi bus as follows. How to confiugre tape library in linux master server vox. Dec 28, 2015 ok ive got external hdds, but not enough to store all my systems, so i have an hp ultrium 460 lto tape drive. If you use a modern, mainstream atapi or scsi drive with a recent linux distribution, installation will likely be straightforward.
Anyway, the purpose of installing linux is to see how tape drive works with this os. I have a lot of media and video content i want to make permanent backups for and thought to myself why not a tape drive. How to properly configure a vmware esx virtual machine to. External tape drive installation on red hat linux the only scsi device attached to server is this external tape drice and when cat procscsiscsi is used to show the scsi device currently attached, it shows ultrium2 which means its detecting the tape drive. Apr 08, 2006 resolved an issue in which the scsi hard drive could not be detected in a system configured with two u320 scsi hbas and a tape drive in obdr mode. By default stinit tries to find the definition file f or etcf in this order. Oracle secure backup supports both scsi and fibre channel devices for.
How to connect a scsi tape drive to server without scsi. Try running the first command above, then see if mt will light up the tape drive. The application also provides detailed engineering drive analysis information and the abilty to quickly download updates to the firmware, application, online help, test script and release notes. Scsi tape drives software scsi tape virtualization v.
Any ways, i have had about a week or so now of working with this thing and thought i would share a bit of my experiences so far. Have you tried the scsitur test unit ready or the scsinq command. Hp storageworks dat internal tape drive getting started. Log onto to a shell prompt on the esx host and run the following command. Scsi tape drive commands i am puzzled that hp does not make this documentation available on hp equipment. Hp storageworks dat 72 external tape drive tape drive. How to identify which scsi device is the tape media. Iperius backup tape backup software for ltodat tape drives. Installing scsi tape drive the unix and linux forums. Integrating a tape drive into a linux system tandberg data. See about the required linux scsi drivers in the linux chapter.
In linux and unixlike system, the mt command is used to control operations of the tape drive, such as finding status or seeking through files on a tape or writing tape control marks to the tape. The linux tape driver knows the drive is in 1 kb mode, so it requests a single read fixed command of 10 blocks. The main goal is just to see it connected to the server we also have storage system connected to the same hba. Scsi tape drive commands hewlett packard enterprise. The default tape drive under linux is devst0 first scsi tape device name. With this setup, using mt to control the tape drive and tar copy the data has been successful. This driver allows passthrough commands to scsi tape drives and control of robotic devices scsi tape st driver. The library is packaged with a tape tool called stt, scsi tape utility, which is based on libdat. The linux software iscsitarget otherwise known as iscsi enterprisetarget system seams to have an unofficial patch availiable that will allow scsi passthrough, but i havnt been able to get that to work either. How to identify which scsi device is the tape media changer.
Linux tape backup with mt and tar command howto nixcraft. I can now interactively send any command to the tape drives, as well as reprogram drives and make reprogramming firmware tapes. How do i configure linux to allow me to use the tape drive with say tar or cpio. Optionsf conffile specifies the name of the text file containing the definitions for different tape drive types. Now what i have done so far is to connect and install my scsi card but when i connected two different tape drives, the linux system is not able to detect the tape drive. Tape devices are character devices on a linux system, going by a variety of filenames. In some situations its needed to have access to a directly attached tape drive in a kvm guest. How to identify which scsi device is the tape media changer on linux on a linux server running rhel or centos, when you have a tape library connected to it. Refer to the hp storageworks tape software compatibility topic on our world wide web site. To use scsi tape drives and robotic libraries, the following drivers must be configured in the kernel or loaded as modules. Jun 06, 2018 our setup includes hp storageworks sdlt 320 tape drive, microtech scsi hd50 scsi bridge scsi to usb adapter, and modern linux ubuntu 18. Linux, microsoft windows, novell netware, red hat linux, sgi irix, sunsoft solaris.
Oct 15, 2015 see about the required linux scsi drivers in the linux chapter. Continuous backup monitoring with tapealert to help ensure data integrity. For information about scsi tape devices, the command uses the following sources for the information displayed. Figure 1 is an example output from an esx host with a quantum sdlt 320 tape drive that is on scsi id 5. Adding a scsi tape drive using the cciss driver in sles. Ok ive got external hdds, but not enough to store all my systems, so i have an hp ultrium 460 lto tape drive. The typical solution is to backup your network clients to disk on a machine attached to the tape drives, and then duplicatevaultmigrate your data from the fast disk cache to the lto3 drive. My 1u server also has a 2tb seagate constellation es. One way to accomplish this goal is to set the permissions to 666 for the devsg devices. Scsi tape drives software free download scsi tape drives.
How to install any free backup software on rhel server for. Stavir is a scsi tape virtualizing low level driver. Acronis advanced backup is rather expensive, and has a rep for being buggy. I have a external tape drive that connect to the server via scsi card, i can see the tape drive by arcserve, how can i know what is the tape drive how to find the tape device help answer threads with 0 replies. Tape manufacturing module tmm, is the easiest to use, most versatile, and fastest tape testing product on the market. The lsi card came with the tape drive, and the 1u server has room for that pci card. Hp storageworks dat 72 external tape drive tape drive dat. In less than thirty minutes xtalk will evaluate your tape drive s health and determine if it needs to be sent in for service. If st is not loaded, try modprobe st, and then your mt command. You can read more about tape drives naming convention used under linux. Linux and other unixish system use mt command to control magnetic tape drive operation. Check all your serevrs and see if there is an external scsi connection in any of the expansion slots. I have searched all of hp and the only document that shows the text string a scsi commandsa is the owners manual, however, the section in the ownera s manual that is titled a scsi commandsa has nothing to do with scsi commands, but. The tape drive has a scsi interface and didnt come with any installation cd.
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