Issue with tape backup - AWS virtual tape library

[VTOLfreak]

I setup a AWS storage gateway with a virtual tape library. I managed to connect it to proxmox backup server with iSCSI. (I followed the instructions here)
PBS can see the changer, the drive and the tapes. However every time I try to create a backup I get the following error:


Loading the tape works OK, but trying to label it also produces an error:


This is the message in the PBS syslog;


The tape has been loaded into the drive so it should see the media?
Incompatibility with the virtual tape drive the AWS storage gateway presents?




The tape itself was created with 1500GiB size as I believe that's the maximum size for LTO5. (The AWS console allows creation of tapes up to 5TiB however)

Any ideas what might be wrong here?

I would love to get this working as the tapes will be auto-archived into AWS Deep Glacier as soon as the tape drive ejects them.

[UPDATE] Looks like I'm not the first to try this. I get a different error however.

 

[dietmar]

Sorry, but AWS is not LTO5 compatible, so we do not support it. We already reported a request to amazon to implement the missing commands, but I guess that will take some time...

 

[ionid]

Any update on this: AWS is not LTO5 compatible?

 

[adamb]

Also wondering if there has been any movement on this?

 

[dcsapak]

we did not check recently, but i wouldn't have heard/seen anything that would indicate amazon changed their implementation. but you're free to test of course (just testing without writing much data on it shouldn't even cost that much; but check it to be sure)

 

[wormstein]

Uodate Oct 2024 for anyone interested: AWS Tape Gateway has the same implementation and throws exactly the same error. Tested this week. All works well till any write operation is attempted.