Dru asked that I report back to the list as to what and how I did to
work with Michael. First and foremost, I had a whiteboard discussion
with Michael as to the nature of the data, not just the quantity. I
brought along an Ubuntu 16.04 server with a really old DLT drive for the
purpose of demonstration. Come to find out, Michael had a similar
server with the proper, new fangled, external interface to connect to
the LTO6 drive. We yanked the boot drive out of my server, installed
the drive in his server and PRESTO! It just works. No extra drivers,
no runs, no drips, no errors.
Better than that, I have a SATA drive dock with an eSata interface.
Both of our respective servers have eSata ports on the back and so I
hooked it up. Not only did the servers recognize the drives, we were
able to hot, okay maybe more like luke, swap the drives out of the dock.
I was careful to unmount the volume from the linux file system and
then power off the dock before swapping the drive. That beats the stink
outta having to power off the server to swap out external SATA drives.
This may have been available for some time now but I'm just now coming
upon it.
Michael and I shall meet more to address some operational procedures.
Today was a big success in the proof of concept. I left this evening
with the server running backing up a 2TB SATA drive, connected in a USB
SATA dock; an excellent overnight activity.
Howard
On 08/24/2018 12:56 PM, jonnyX wrote:
Hi folks,
Mike (helpwithmath153@gmail) needs some assistance with a tape archive
unit. He needs it working yesterday, and he's not asking for free tech
support.
I had done some preliminary research earlier in the week, tracking down
hardware & driver info (see below), but it looks like this is going to
involve a bit more research and an onsite visit to get the archive
system up and running. Unfortunately, I am flat on my back with a summer
cold, plus my car is in the garage & I don't get it back 'til Monday.
Then I'm scheduled to go out of town from Tuesday the 28th through
September 4th or 5th.
Can anyone give Mike a hand?
~~Dru
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