[James Vorley]

Hi Howard

Did you manage to import ok? I can help you if you are still struggling.

James

[James Vorley]

Hi Bob!

You are correct in that I do not own a company.

Archiware actually represents very good value for money when you consider it can do both archive and true backup (eg nightly backup of a constantly changing file system, with point in time restores).

What’s the cost of losing all your ongoing edit project metadata? I would hazard a guess at a lot more than $5k.

We both know I will never be as accomplished as you, Bob. I would never dream of even suggesting that.

James

[James Vorley]

My preferred solution for deep archive is Archiware. It’s a very mature product and the support is excellent. It’s doesn’t use LTFS but arguably that’s a strength for deep archive.

Have heard good things about Yoyotta but do not have any direct experience with it.

Stay away from Storage DNA. Very poor support.

[James Vorley]

Sadly it looks like they have called it a day. If anyone is stuck with restores let me know and I’ll do my best to help.
https://www.tolisgroup.com

Dear Customers, Partners, and Friends,

It is with extremely heavy hearts that we have been forced to make the painful decision to cease operations at TOLIS Group, Inc., effective August 28, 2020, after more than 20 years of operation.

The current COVID-19 challenges of our world have made it absolutely impossible for our small, Veteran owned business to continue operations any longer.

Please know that TOLIS Group, Inc. tried everything in its power to avoid this situation and used all the resources available to small businesses from the beginning of the COVID related shutdowns, however, it simply wasn’t enough due to the continued shutdowns and project delays of our customers across their primary industries.

At the top of this page are the links to the latest versions of the BRU software packages, ArGest hardware/firmware downloads, and documentation.

ALL of your BRU archives are restorable by these demo versions as the restore functionality NEVER expires.

For those of you with active LTO tape drive warranties, Overland/Tandberg will handle the warranties directly.

For those of you with active Samsung or Seagate warranties, those will be handled by Samsung or Seagate directly.

For those of you with Sonnet Technologies warranties, those will be handled by Sonnet Technologies directly.

We thank you for all your years of patronage, and wish you all well, as we navigate the new normal of the COVID-19 world.

TOLIS Group, Inc.

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[James Vorley]

For anyone who may be experiencing a similar issue…

Jim and I investigated further and the problem seemed to be that the Argest tape import tool would not recognise the 128K block size of the problem tape.

We were able to change the bufsize in bruxpat config to 128K and then use terminal to import the entirety of the data on the tape using sudo bru -xvvv

bufsize can also be set with the -b flag which will override bruxpat eg sudo bru -b=128K -xvvv

[James Vorley]

That means there is only one “ and you’re missing one at the end of the path.

You do not need to use tapectl now.

[James Vorley]

Correction: Steps are: eject tape, power cycle drive, reboot Mac, insert tape

[James Vorley]

Just to confirm you need to run these commands with the tape loaded in the drive.

Steps are: eject tape, power cycle drive, reboot Mac.

Open terminal, enter:

bru -xvvvf ntape0 “/Volumes/SAS RAID/ANTHEM restore from LTO"

If the tape imports, rejoice. If not, read on…

If you then get this message:

bru: [W130] warning - read error on first block: errno = 5, Input/output error
bru: [A121] load volume 1 - press ENTER to continue on device 'ntape0'

press enter.

Then without power cycling eject tape and insert a tape that you know works on your new Mac.

Hit C to continue.

Does it import the new known good tape?

[James Vorley]

Ok, put in a known good tape (one from your old system that you have successfully restored from your new system) and press C. What is the output?

I am on UK time but could have a more detailed look tomorrow if you still can’t get through to support. Contact me on LinkedIn

[James Vorley]

What does bru -g ntape0 give you?