tape drive

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    Nächstes freies Tape selber bestimmen

    Hallo zusammen, ich habe mein Tape Backup nun am laufen und muss sagen, dass das wirklich gut funktioniert. Aktuell habe ich aber "nur" ein einfaches Laufwerk ohne Autoloader. Bisher hatten wir Veeam im Einsatz, welches einmal am Wochenende ein Tape geschrieben hat, nach dem Wochenende wurde...
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    [SOLVED] Tape drive not recognised

    Hi, I previously had PBS installed on a Dell R710 alongside PVE 7.x - This was a couple of years ago, so I can't remember which version of PBS it was. The server was damaged, and has been unused since. I've now installed PVE 9.2.3 and PBS 4.2.1 on an R730, and moved the HP 1/8 G2 Autoloader...
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    LTO3 - move to EOD failed / transport error

    Hi all, I have a container backed on a mediaset of five LTO3 tapes (tape0-tape4). The fifth tape now returns an error. I am aware that LTO3 is not officially supported, but in practice things use to turn out quite well. This is the log of the task: 2025-05-31T22:34:14+02:00: update media...
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    PBS Backup to Tape / Collected Infos and proposals

    After going through all the threads in this forum regarding Tape Backup and opening a ticket at Proxmox without real solution, I would like to ask/propose some Ideas Please correct me, If some of my points are wrong. Comments also welcome. BTW: 3.2 would be my favourite solution. Conclusions...
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    PBS does not identify my TS4300 tape library

    lsscsi [1:0:0:0] cd/dvd HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-T10N 1.00 /dev/sr0 [2:0:0:0] disk ServeRA BootV V1.0 /dev/sda [2:0:1:0] disk ServeRA Volume V1.0 /dev/sdb [2:1:0:0] disk HUA72101 0KLA330 AB4A - [2:1:1:0] disk HUA72101 0KLA330...
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    Bandlaufwerk wird nicht erkannt

    Hallo zusammen, Ich habe ein IBM LTO4 Bandlaufwerk (LTO Ultrium - 4 H) und ein Raid Controller Fujitsu ICT-1607. Wenn ich Windows Installiere kann ich das Bandlaufwerk steuern und es einwandfrei benutzen. Leider wird das Laufwerk unter ProxMox Backup Server nicht erkannt und auch mit Linux...
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    Can't use Tape using pmt

    As you can see, I can use < mt > to manage my tape. Sadly, using < pmt > like PBS, it doesn't work. I've tried: -Different Tapes -Cleaning Tapes -LTO-4 Tape -PBS Upgrade None of the above helped. Below I've attached you a print out of the error and some general device info. Hope it helps :)...
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    AWS Vitual Tape Library "decode element status failed - failed to fill whole buffer"

    Hello, I connected the media changer of my AWS storage gateway via ISCSI to my PBS. iscsiadm -m node --targetname iqn..com.amazon:sgw-idididmediachanger --login Then i added the changer via the following command to the pbs-system proxmox-tape changer create sl3 --path...
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    Emulex HBA Fiber Channel Tape Drive Issue

    Hi! My problem is that i don't get my Tape Drives & Library show up under Proxmox over Fiber Channel. Under Windows i installed OCManager from Emulex and everything showed up in Device Manager, easy, but under Linux i don't know. My HBA(emulex lpe11002) is recognized and show up...
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    Tape drive not found

    Hi, I wanted to test PBS tape backups with a Tanberg LTO-6 drive. But proxmox-tape drive scan does not find the drive. If I do a proxmox-drive create LTO-Test --path /dev/tape/by-id/scsi-HUJ6156274 it throws an error Error: path '/dev/tape/by-id/scsi-HUJ6156274' is not a lto SCSI-generic tape...
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    Right way to setup Tape drives

    Hey, I want to set up a backup solution with Proxmox and tape drives. Unfortunately I have no real experience with tape drives. PBS has it on the roadmap, but doesn't support it at the moment. So what is the right way to set up this? I think it would be something like: - attach the SAS...
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    Proxmox 5.0 Adding Tape Drive For Windows Backups

    Hello, first time here but looking for some help. I have the latest proxmox and I'm trying to add a RD1000 tape drive to it so that windows server 2016 can see it as a tape drive, not just a disk. I can get windows server 2016 to see it as a disk but that creates problems, it doesn't allow the...