Hello, everyone. I have recently acquired a new (old) server that came with a Compaq DLT Mini Library. The library has room for 15 tapes, and has a pair of 35/70 DLT drives inside it, along with a bar code reader (which I will probably never use). Having spoken to a Compaq support person, it seems that the drive is a Manatee or Manatee 2, if that helps. A search for this on the Compaq site yields no results, although there is a reference to it on the Arcserve site listing it as a supported device for their products. I am trying to decide which avenue to follow for this device. I would like to either use it as a back-up device or as a near-line storage device. If it could do both simultaneously, that would be awesome, but I think that's unlikely. My question is, does anyone know of any freely available utilities that would help with setting the device up as near-line storage ? I have found a few commercial offerings out on Google, and Freshmeat drew a blank, too. I can't spend a great deal of money on this as it is a home machine. I'd like to use it get our large collection of MPEG and MP3 files off the hard drives and free up some space. Thanks, Stuart.
On Mon, 16 Sep 2002 07:25 am, Stuart Powell wrote:
Hello, everyone.
I have recently acquired a new (old) server that came with a Compaq DLT Mini Library. The library has room for 15 tapes, and has a pair of 35/70 DLT drives inside it, along with a bar code reader (which I will probably never use). Having spoken to a Compaq support person, it seems that the drive is a Manatee or Manatee 2, if that helps. A search for this on the Compaq site yields no results, although there is a reference to it on the Arcserve site listing it as a supported device for their products.
I am trying to decide which avenue to follow for this device. I would like to either use it as a back-up device or as a near-line storage device. If it could do both simultaneously, that would be awesome, but I think that's unlikely.
My question is, does anyone know of any freely available utilities that would help with setting the device up as near-line storage ? I have found a few commercial offerings out on Google, and Freshmeat drew a blank, too. I can't spend a great deal of money on this as it is a home machine. I'd like to use it get our large collection of MPEG and MP3 files off the hard drives and free up some space.
Thanks, Stuart.
Hi Stuart, I know nothing about autochangers but found this on Freshmeat. MTX - SCSI Media Changer and Backup Device Control http://mtx.badtux.net/ Hope this helps. -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------
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