[plug] IDE-Tape Drive - Solved

[Andrew Barbara]

Hi
i use Arkeia...  its free for one Linux server and is quite easy to use.
I have had success using it on IDE and SCSI VXA drives and various DDS 
drives, all good.

Regards
Andrew Barbara 

On 22 Sep 2003, Onno Benschop wrote:

> Well, it works...
> 
> Matt went on site and he did the jig with different Kernel versions off
> boot-floppies, updated the BIOS, all no good.
> 
> Then he pulled out his trusty screw driver and started shorting out
> chips - just kidding - moved the devices around the various channels.
> 
> The option that works is:
> 
> Channel 0: hda - the one that was always there
> Channel 1: ht0 - as a master
> Channel 2: hdd - as a slave
> 
> So, the tape drive just works, the disk just mounts and I've not had any
> freezes (yet), even though I've copied several hundred Gb across the net
> onto the drive.
> 
> I've successfully used dump and restore to the tape drive, and was going
> to be happy to use that until I read an email from Linus who told me
> that I shouldn't use those if I wanted my data back.
> 
> I then began to use tar, but of course if you want to exclude files or
> directories, it doesn't actually work in any way.
> 
> Now I'm reading about the abomination known as Amanda.
> 
> Why does our so-called "superiour server solution" have such abysmal
> backup systems?
> 
> 
> Onno Benschop 
> 
> Connected via Optus B3 at S15:51'18" - E128:45'05" (Crossing Falls, Kununurra, WA)
> 

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