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Category Archives: LTO

The (Minor) Curse of Bacula…

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on June 28, 2012 by RGJune 28, 2012

Bacula is great for Linux – to – LTO tape backups, but the YUM updates can – at least on my system – sometimes leave it in an unusable state.. For some reason, the update tends to leave the libraries in /usr/lib64 in a mess, with some pointing to postgresql instead of mysql, and some still in … Continue reading →

Posted in Bacula, Fedora, LTO, Performance | Tagged bacula, errors, fedora, fix, libraries, linux, lto, update, yum | Leave a reply

Shades of Transylvania

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on April 8, 2012 by RGApril 8, 2012

After successfully installing the Adaptec SCSI 320 card (and running out of PCI-E slots..) and connecting the ‘new’ HP LTO-3 tape drive, I have been enjoying the deja-vu feeling of using SCSI again, after many years…       I remember the pre-USB and pre-Firewire days, when CD-drives and scanners (and expensive disks) were all connected using SCSI… Printers – … Continue reading →

Posted in Bacula, LTO, SCSI | Tagged amanda, bacula, configuration, lto, problems, solutions, tape backup, tar | Leave a reply

Back(up) to the Future..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on March 30, 2012 by RGMarch 30, 2012

Shades of the late-’90s and early-’00s again…      I decided I needed a reliable and practical backup for my systems, and having an array of n-TB disks seemed complete overkill (and _expensive_).. So, I’m getting a reasonably-priced HP Ultrium 960 LTO-3 external drive, which is relatively expensive (£450), but the tapes (400GB / 800GB ‘compressed’) are not – … Continue reading →

Posted in Fedora, LTO | Tagged adaptec, hp, linux, lto-3, scsi, tape backup, u320, ultrium | Leave a reply
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