seabra
October 23rd, 2008, 05:53 AM
Hello
I have an HP DAT 72 USB drive model C7438A.
I have followed the instructions provided by HP for configuring the tape drive and everything *seems* to be in place.
I say seems because flexbackup --test-tape-drive fails all the time.After some debugging and losing quite a couple of hours i was trying to write files by hand to the tape after which i would execute the command:
mt -f /dev/st0 tell
and the result is allways: At block 0.
No matter how many files I write or whatever I do the result i get is allways At block 0.
In the begginging in used to erase the tape but it took so many hours (2h or so) that now i just rewind it but nevertheless the result was the same.
Any ideas how to solve this and finnaly start making some backups?
Kind Regards,
Joćo Seabra
(Also posted in the flexbackup-help mailing list)
I have an HP DAT 72 USB drive model C7438A.
I have followed the instructions provided by HP for configuring the tape drive and everything *seems* to be in place.
I say seems because flexbackup --test-tape-drive fails all the time.After some debugging and losing quite a couple of hours i was trying to write files by hand to the tape after which i would execute the command:
mt -f /dev/st0 tell
and the result is allways: At block 0.
No matter how many files I write or whatever I do the result i get is allways At block 0.
In the begginging in used to erase the tape but it took so many hours (2h or so) that now i just rewind it but nevertheless the result was the same.
Any ideas how to solve this and finnaly start making some backups?
Kind Regards,
Joćo Seabra
(Also posted in the flexbackup-help mailing list)