On 18/03/17 15:03, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
On 03/18/2017 03:51 AM, Paul Groves wrote:
On 17/03/17 10:23, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
Anyway, the OP mentioned using cleaning tape (twice?), no result.
oh, I missed that.
Hi everyone, thanks for all the responses. So many in fact I will just answer them all in one message.
Yes I tried a universal HP cleaning cartridge and a LTO3 Quantum cleaning cartridge and this made no difference.
The drive Clean LED had not come on.
I have 3 other tape drives on the same SCSI controller and I have no issue with any of them.
Yes I have a terminator on the end of the cable (It came on the cable).
I am backing up using tar -cvWf "/srv/folder1" "/srv/folder2" "/srv/folder3" "/srv/folder4" etc...
I tried a large 200GB ish backup: (just one folder e.g. tar -cvWf "/srv/folder1") and this has worked. It seems to fail when I specify lots of files. The only problem here is the folder does not fit on one LTO3 cartridge. This leads me back to two questions I asked earlier in the year which I had no success in resolving.
1. How do I verify tar and split between multiple tapes at the same time when W and m don't work together?
Multivolume would be -M *not* -m. It is case sensitive.
Yes correct. I made a typo :) oops. I have been reading up about bacula. Apparently bacula has the ability to span multiple tapes and drives while verifying the backup. Has anyone successfully used bacula? Any advise? What is the opinion on the bacula-web package? (I have windows admins who will need to check logs is this a good package for this job)? Off Topic: Just been on the phone to plusnet. Turns out they store everyone's password and direct debit information in plain text! How quaint (and stupid in my opinion and I am sure most of yours). I was hashing and salting my website and passwords when I was 14! some links: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/25/plusnet_still_delivering_passwords_... https://community.plus.net/t5/My-Account-Billing/Why-does-Plusnet-store-my-a... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org