If, after performing these steps the tape drive still isnt recognized, then check the bios of the scsi. You can read more about tape drives naming convention used under linux. Options the first argument, given following f, is the scsi generic device corresponding to your tape drive. My 1u server also has a 2tb seagate constellation es. 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. Scsi tape drives software scsi tape virtualization v. Hp storageworks dat 72 external tape drive tape drive. How to properly configure a vmware esx virtual machine to use. Integrating a tape drive into a linux system tandberg data.
Oracle secure backup supports both scsi and fibre channel devices for. If st is not loaded, try modprobe st, and then your mt. 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. Products sold prior to the november 1, 2015 separation of hewlettpackard company into hewlett packard enterprise company and hp inc. In less than thirty minutes xtalk will evaluate your tape drive s health and determine if it needs to be sent in for service. Log onto to a shell prompt on the esx host and run the following command. Iperius backup tape backup software for ltodat tape drives. Ultra scsi tapes and data cartridge drives for sale ebay.
Values for all of the general and modespecific scsi tape parameters up to linux version 2. Tape manufacturing module tmm, is the easiest to use, most versatile, and fastest tape testing product on the market. 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. 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. Linux tape backup with mt and tar command howto nixcraft.
With a 6gb serial attached scsi sas interface, the powervault lto4120 leverages higher transfer rates over traditional scsi interfaces. 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. 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. 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 and other unixish system use mt command to control magnetic tape drive operation. Tape files index software for tape drives and libraries. If you use a modern, mainstream atapi or scsi drive with a recent linux distribution, installation will likely be straightforward. How to confiugre tape library in linux master server vox. Hp storageworks dat 72 external tape drive tape drive dat.
How to identify which scsi device is the tape media. 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. Nov 06, 2001 the machine has an internal scsi dat drive. We have a tape library which is connected to a server by sas link. Oct 15, 2015 see about the required linux scsi drivers in the linux chapter. Scsi tape drive commands hewlett packard enterprise. Ideal for linux home users to easily backup all or parts of their system, provided they have an extra hard drive. Optionsf conffile specifies the name of the text file containing the definitions for different tape drive types. To use scsi tape drives and robotic libraries, the following drivers must be configured in the kernel or loaded as modules. Integrating a tape drive into a linux system tandberg. Main reason is to run a backup software in a kvm guest using the tape drive physically connected to the proxmox ve host. Continuous backup monitoring with tapealert to help ensure data integrity. The lsi card came with the tape drive, and the 1u server has room for that pci card. Hp storageworks dat internal tape drive getting started.
Try lsmod or lsmod grep st to see if the st driver is loaded. 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. Have you tried the scsitur test unit ready or the scsinq command. Anyway, the purpose of installing linux is to see how tape drive works with this os. You need to use mt command while working with 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. I can now interactively send any command to the tape drives, as well as reprogram drives and make reprogramming firmware tapes. We looked into openfiler, but it will not do scsi passthrough of nonblock devices, such as sequential access tape drives. Refer to the hp storageworks tape software compatibility topic on our world wide web site.
This driver allows passthrough commands to scsi tape drives and control of robotic devices scsi tape st driver. Hp storageworks dat internal tape drive getting started guide. Zdatdump can copy complete folders, automatically or with a schedule, for transport, backup, or archiving to tape drives. Ok ive got external hdds, but not enough to store all my systems, so i have an hp ultrium 460 lto tape drive. This document contains an index of the most frequently used tape files and tape drive firmware updates available within the ibm tapetool. Installing scsi tape drive the unix and linux forums. The library is packaged with a tape tool called stt, scsi tape utility, which is based on libdat. How to identify which scsi device is the tape media changer. Scsi tape drives software free download scsi tape drives. Adding a scsi tape drive using the cciss driver in sles.
Check all your serevrs and see if there is an external scsi connection in any of the expansion slots. The default tape drive under linux is devst0 first scsi tape device name. Jun 03, 2009 linux and other unixish system use mt command to control magnetic tape drive operation. Details as to why this is the case can be found in the cciss.
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. Travan, slr, mlr, qic, lto, ultrium, ait, dlt, vxa, dat, or dds tape drives with a scsi, sata, ide, or usb port. Hp storageworks dat 72 external tape drive tape drive dat scsi overview and full product specs on cnet. If so, you can install the tape drive, driver and abckup software on that server. It can back up open files vss, make disk images and restore individual files. 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. By default stinit tries to find the definition file f or etcf in this order.
In some situations its needed to have access to a directly attached tape drive in a kvm guest. Acronis advanced backup is rather expensive, and has a rep for being buggy. Try running the first command above, then see if mt will light up the tape drive. How to connect a scsi tape drive to server without scsi. Datdss tape drives data storage product dat 72 support. 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. With this setup, using mt to control the tape drive and tar copy the data has been successful.
External tape drive installation on red hat linux hewlett. For information about scsi tape devices, the command uses the following sources for the information displayed. Hp tape tools for drive information, troubleshooting diagnostics and firmware upgrades. 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. How to install any free backup software on rhel server for. The tape drive has a scsi interface and didnt come with any installation cd. The linux tape driver knows the drive is in 1 kb mode, so it requests a single read fixed command of 10 blocks. If st is not loaded, try modprobe st, and then your mt command. Dat40 drive offers the capability to automatically switch between lowvoltage differential and singleended scsi interfaces for greater flexibility. The main goal is just to see it connected to the server we also have storage system connected to the same hba. The tape driver sends a read variable command, asking for the size of the internal buffer of 32 kb. 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.
Tape backup software for windows 10 windows 10 forums. 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. What software do you recommend for tape bckup on windows 10. Linux, microsoft windows, novell netware, red hat linux, sgi irix, sunsoft solaris. Our setup includes hp storageworks sdlt 320 tape drive, microtech scsihd50 scsi bridge scsi to usb adapter, and modern linux ubuntu 18. 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. See about the required linux scsi drivers in the linux chapter. Scsi tape drive commands i am puzzled that hp does not make this documentation available on hp equipment. You might also have to manually load the scsi tape driver. 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. 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. Tape files index software for tape drives and libraries united states. Amanda network backup amanda is the most popular backup and archiving software that protects multiple machines running var.
Figure 1 is an example output from an esx host with a quantum sdlt 320 tape drive that is on scsi id 5. 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. 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. Excellent security powervault lto4120 is the first drive in its class to offer devicelevel encryption. 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.
Scsi tapes use the names devst0, devnst0, devst1, devnst1, and so on. Ive had a scsi hard drive, scsi tape drive, and cd rom working off an adaptec 29160 controller. An oracle secure backup user must be mapped to a linux or unix user that has readwrite permissions to the devsg devices. Stavir is a scsi tape virtualizing low level driver. One way to accomplish this goal is to set the permissions to 666 for the devsg devices. How to properly configure a vmware esx virtual machine to.