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Four tips for preserving digital data
I've written at length about the difficulties associated with preserving digital data for the long term. To round it all off today, I've condensed a number of tips to keep in mind should you find yourself with the unenviable responsibility for storing data. 1.  RAID is not fail-safe ...
Tags: Tape Drive, Fact, RAID, Storage, Hardware, Paul Mah
Blog posts 2007-12-18
LTO tape drive space
i have WIN 2003 server snd HP StorageWorks Ultarium 448 Device for storage. How I can see the Storage space in LTO tape drive, Pls help me............
Tags: Storage, Storage management, dinesharya20002@..., LTO Tape drive, LTO, tape drive
Discussion threads 2007-07-16
Restore from TAPE BKP
Hi,One of my Win2K Server has crashed, and all the data lost. I had been backing up the data on DDS 20/40gb tapes, using Windows proprietary Backup solutions from the server that crashed.Now, I am trying to restore data from the tape using another server.. but the tape is not...
Tags: Storage management, Backups, Storage, Servers, Microsoft Windows 2000, an_it_guy, tape, server, tape drive, backup
Discussion threads 2007-06-08
BrightStor 11.1 asking for second tape...please help
I am running BrightStor ver. 11.1 on a 2003 Domain Controller. The tape drive is a DLT 160VS by Quantum. I am trying to backup approx. 110GB of data located locally on the server. I am using hardware compression from the tape drive. All tests from...
Tags: Backups, Storage management, Storage, IT Management, dagreco@..., backup, tape, tape drive, CA BrightStor
Discussion threads 2007-05-16
Take advantage of quick backups to tape on Linux systems
Make quick backups on your Linux systems with the mt-st suite of tools. Before the days of writable CDs, DVDs, and cheap hard drives, the preferred medium for backing up systems was tape. Tape systems are very reliable, although perhaps less convenient than using optical media. They...
Tags: Linux, Storage, Vincent Danen, Storage management, OPEN SOURCE, backup, Linux system, tape drive, tape, Linux Tips Newsletter, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware
Technical articles 2006-07-24
Inside the Commodore Pet 2001 vintage computer
The Commodore PET 2001 was the first fully integrated computer from Commodore. It was based on the same architecture as the MOS/Commodore KIM-1 but provided a keyboard ("chicklet style"), tape drive and monitor all housed in a space-age case.Erik Klein, vintage computer collector and Webmaster of Vintage-Computer.com, takes you inside...
Tags: Commodore, computer, Erik, image, keyboard, monitor, photograph, tape drive, Web, Web site, Webmaster
Image galleries 2006-07-14
File Sytem Backup
I have 700000 files (220 GB)on a file server. It takes over 10 hours to back this data up to a tape drive. How can reduce this time. My tape drive and file servers are on the same network switch; its a GB link between the file server and tape...
Tags: backup, file server, hardware, jamalghaus@..., server, tape drive
Q&A 2006-01-24
DDS1 tape drive
can anyone suggest an external 4mm Tape drive that will read/write DDS1 format 4mm 2 gig uncompressed / 4 gig compressed tape.I have a rack mount server no room for tape drive. I will be running Linux and the backup software is EDGE.Thanks,Have you checked the Device Compatibility link from...
Tags: Storage management, Storage, Backups, DDS1, tape drive
Q&A 2005-10-20
NTBACKUP-Windows 2003 Server Std Ed
Hi,I wonder if you can please help me.I am trying to set up daily scheduled backup jobs using an external SCSI HP DAT 72GB tape drive which is connected to the onboard external SCSI conenctor of an Elonex Esperon L server. The server is running Windows 2003 Standard Edition with...
Tags: nsharma@..., SCSI, tape, tape drive, windows
Q&A 2005-10-11
recommend backup for 50-100 GB of storage
recommend backup for 50-100 GB of storageI have had bad luck with tape drives so I am looking for other hardware to use for backing up 50-100 GB of storage daily. What have you used successfully and consistently more than three months or what do you recommend I use that...
Tags: backup, hardware, jsfald, server, storage, storage solution, tape drive
Discussion threads 2005-07-18
Mac OS 9.1 tape backup
My step daughter has a Mac with OS 9.1 on it and she comes to me to fix things on it for her. I know very little about Macs. She wants me to hook up a tape drive, which I have done already, so she can do backups. The system...
Tags: Apple Mac OS, Apple Macintosh, backup, gybass@..., Mac OS 9.1, PC, tape backup, tape drive
Q&A 2005-06-29
Take three steps to secure data backups
Tape ContentsMake sure the tapes you send are not blank despite what the backup program tells you!Better to lose the tapes in transit then to explain why you can't restore from a blank tape that has been secured so well for so long.I'm confused...On my Windows server 2003 boxes, we...
Tags: ASR, backup, data backup, security, tape, tape drive, Travan Backups, tundraroamer
Discussion threads 2005-06-10
Autoloader
Have you considered a Tape Library?http://www.hp.com/products1/storage/products/automatedbackup/autoloaders/18series_tape/index.htmlMultiple Tape BackupI have just being assigned to configure our backup server so that it can use more than one tape drive. I have a Brightstor Arcserve Backup software and I have more than one SureStore DLT80 tape drives connected to different servers.Is there...
Tags: backup, backup connector, backup server, merckstepha, multiple backup, networking, server, tape backup, tape drive
Discussion threads 2005-05-12
Storage networking fundamentals: Storage devices
This sample chapter, taken from Cisco Press' Storage Networking Fundamentals: An Introduction to Storage Devices, Subsystems, Applications, Management, and File Systems, explains the inner-workings of both disk drive and tape drive technologies, shows how they are used in a storage area network SAN, and outlines each technology's benefits and shortcomings....
Tags: benefit, disk, disk drive, file system, fundamentals, hard drive, information technology, network, networking, performance, SAN, shortcoming, storage, storage device, storage networking, Storage Networking Fundamentals, subsystem, tape drive
Download resources 2005-04-26
tape drive drivers?
I need to purchase an additional tape drive for backup.I had the SCSI cards and drivers.Do I need tape drive drivers?be it internal nor externalHello...The answer is almost certainly 'yes'. External or internal doesn't change driver requirements. I would expect your tape drive vendor to supply the drivers you need....
Tags: Storage management, Storage, tape drive
Q&A 2005-04-14
SIngle Channel with SCSI tape drive
My server is built in with 1 intergrated channel for my 6 units of SCSI HD and I will need to plug in an internal SCSI tape drive,can I do that?since I have only 1 channel?you *might* be able to. many flavors of scsi and you have know exactly what...
Tags: Storage management, Storage, lcw@..., SCSI, tape drive
Discussion threads 2005-02-21
DellPerc/4DC needed or
Can I use Dell Raid card such as DellPerc/4DC to attach to an external tape drive such as Dell PowerVault 110T VS160 or instead need to buy SCSI controller card Adaptec SCSI card 39160 dual channel 160 controller?I assume that this is a Dell server we are talking about here....
Tags: Storage management, Storage, Servers, Backups, SCSI, card, Dell Computer Corp., tape drive
Q&A 2005-02-02
SuSE 8.1 restore issue w/ Sony AIT 260e
I am have a Compaq Proliant ML370 Server with SuSE 8.1 Samba 2.2.8I just installed a new Sony AIT 260e tape drive and it backs up incrediblyfast and writes to the tape correctly both from my backup software "Lone-tar"and from the command line. However I get input/output errors when...
Tags: dgrow@..., linux, Sony AIT, Sony Corp., SuSE, SuSE 8.1, tape, tape drive
Q&A 2004-11-23
Backup
I belong to a small/ mid-size local museum. They would like to start backing up their data. I was on the fence on what to reccomend. I initially though just CDRW, but I believe that would be to limiting. The next I thought of was a...
Tags: backup, hard drive, peetree, tape drive, tray
Q&A 2004-11-08
DDS3 tape drive disappears in WinXPP
This is on WinXPpro SP2 (problem occurred prior to upgrade. I have a Seagate DDS3 DAT drive. The Adaptec SCSI adapter recognizes it fine. It shows up in device manager correctly as an OK device that is available, but any application that has to recognize it (such as Backup...
Tags: backup, card, JG2000, SCSI, tape drive, windows
Q&A 2004-10-12


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