I got myself an LTO 6 drive a few years ago, I really appreciate the ease of use of LTFS on windows explorer but it's nice to see the old school way every now and then :) I really want an LTO 9 drive for my archive but still pricey.
This video helped tremendously with my LTO-4 drive. I was looking at something like Uranium Backup for a GUI option in Windows 10, but wondering if you had a better solution? I haven't had any luck getting my drive to be "seen" by the WSL terminal to perform these types of commands in Windows 10. Also, would love to know the type of keyboard you have? Amazing sound and reminds me of my first computer, could you let me know the make/model please?
Glad I could help! I've tried Veeam on Windows 11, which seems to work. I wrote to a tape, but have yet to actually try restoring with that software... so I can't definitively say I'm sold on it. I've also taken a look at Uranium Backup, but it comes with a price tag for the version that supports tape backups. If you find something that works nicely on Windows, let me know! I like using tar because it's universal among Linux distributions, whereas if I use some commercial product, I am locked into their product. As far as the keyboard goes, it's a "New Model M" (104 key) from Unicomp. Their website is pckeyboard(dot)com. They also sell the Classic model, which has the same size profile as a IBM Model M.
Correct, this is using SAS. The PCIe card I'm using to connect to the drive is an LSI Logic LSI00138 SAS3801E HBA. I just went on eBay and searched for the cheapest PCIe SAS HBA I could get my hands on. I think I had to flash the HBA firmware to IT mode to get the tape drive to work.
I got myself an LTO 6 drive a few years ago, I really appreciate the ease of use of LTFS on windows explorer but it's nice to see the old school way every now and then :) I really want an LTO 9 drive for my archive but still pricey.
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proxmox backup server would be nice with that LTO4 drive. I have the same drive and it's running strong in my proxmox cluster.
This video helped tremendously with my LTO-4 drive. I was looking at something like Uranium Backup for a GUI option in Windows 10, but wondering if you had a better solution? I haven't had any luck getting my drive to be "seen" by the WSL terminal to perform these types of commands in Windows 10.
Also, would love to know the type of keyboard you have? Amazing sound and reminds me of my first computer, could you let me know the make/model please?
Glad I could help! I've tried Veeam on Windows 11, which seems to work. I wrote to a tape, but have yet to actually try restoring with that software... so I can't definitively say I'm sold on it. I've also taken a look at Uranium Backup, but it comes with a price tag for the version that supports tape backups. If you find something that works nicely on Windows, let me know! I like using tar because it's universal among Linux distributions, whereas if I use some commercial product, I am locked into their product.
As far as the keyboard goes, it's a "New Model M" (104 key) from Unicomp. Their website is pckeyboard(dot)com. They also sell the Classic model, which has the same size profile as a IBM Model M.
Surprisingly, Msys2 could access the tape drive under Windows, mapped to /dev/st0, and could be operated with tar.
Also Veeam Backup Community edition is free to write files into tape drive, but it’s quite complicated to set up.
Is this using SAS connector? What kind of adapter are you using?
Correct, this is using SAS. The PCIe card I'm using to connect to the drive is an LSI Logic LSI00138 SAS3801E HBA. I just went on eBay and searched for the cheapest PCIe SAS HBA I could get my hands on. I think I had to flash the HBA firmware to IT mode to get the tape drive to work.