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How to format LTO-5 tapes using BRU PE (and leave them BRU-compatible)
Good morning, everyone (or afternoon, depending on your timezone).
I have tried to format an LTO-5 before but unsuccessfully, since I am not LTO-savvy or terminal-savvy.
I have tried to put this question through the support in the past but for some reason my ticket simply disappeared.
I have some LTOs that I want to “recycle”, completely erasing the information I have inside and make them BRU-compatible.
How would you propose I do this, and could you please provide a detailed explanation (step-by-step)? I would be very much appreciated.I have BRU PE version 3.0.2 (build 108), on a mac running 10.7.5, and I have an HP LTO-5 Ultrium 3000 tape drive.
Any more information I could provide, let me know.PS: I guess this question could best be answered by TIM JONES, of TOLIS Group, but I don’t know how to tag him so he can see this… :/
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The only thing you need to do is to go about your archive as usual.
Once you are ready to go, when you hit the button a menu will come up asking whether you are appending (adding) or overwriting. Choose overwriting and whatever existed on that tape before will be gone.
Jorge Bernal
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Hi Joao –
No format required for BRU tapes. BRU uses the raw tape layer. Just pop the tape into the drive and tell BRU PE to write (overwrite a new tape since you can’t append to it 🙂 ).
Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.productionbackup.com
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Every time I try to backup the tape ejects and says that it’s full, even when I check the overwrite button.
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You should definitely open a support ticket at https://support.bru.com. The team will get you sorted very quickly.
Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.tolisgroup.com
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Hi, I have a similar problem… when Archiving I check to erase old information on the tape but it ignore it and ask for another tape, this tape is full. Did you have any luck with this?
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Did you get any solution?
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What brand of tape drive are you using?
Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.tolisgroup.com
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Hi, I’m using
HP StoreEver LTO-5 Ultrium 3000 SAS External Tape Drive
https://h30094.https://www3.hp.com/product/sku/10240361I tried a different cable (the one I was using was used for a LTO 4 tape drive)
and it seems to be working… is that possible that it was the cable? -
Absolutely. We actually have custom 1 to 1 and 1 to 4 cables built for our solutions because we found that the generic cables available in the market were too unpredictable from a quality standpoint. They really start to demonstrate issues when we started driving LTO-6 at full speeds (180MB/sec ±).
I’m glad that you got that sorted.
Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.tolisgroup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters! -
I’m doing some tests to make sure this is working as it should, but I think this sorted out the problem.
I’ll post you to let you know the final result 🙂Thank’s for the help!
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