Todd Gill
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Hey all just wanted to give you an update.
Last April I went a different direction with my LTO solution. I returned the OWC LTO system as I could not get to work properly or any support from OWC. I ended up going with a Magstor LTO-8 system. I have put that drive through it’s paces. I migrated all of my LTO-5 BRU Library to a LTO-8 LTFS Library via YoYotta. In total it is just about 30 LTO-8 tapes. The Magstor LTO-8 hooked up to my M1 Mac Mini and YoYotta found the proper drivers needed and we were off! I can say I am happy and relieved to be up to date on my archiving solution.
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Tim, I was checking to see if you guys have worked out the Apple kernel problem with the m1 Mac and the the Mercury Pro LTO. I have not seen a new driver out yet for the LTO.
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Hi Tim, It’s been a bit, but I was checking in to see if the driver has been updated.
Thank you.
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Martin, I have been doing some testing on the OWC LTO and I was able to connect properly to my 2013 iMac which is running 10.14.6 Mojave. I am thinking of testing YoYotta, on this system, as I can connect my LTO-7 Deck and pull archives using BRU and wanting to test archiving using the LTO-8 with YoYotta. I know this is not the best set up because I am going to Thunderbolt 2 via TB3 – TB2 adapter. My hope is that once the driver is ready for the M1 Macs, that I can switch over to that system and archive from there, removing the iMac from the equation when it comes to archiving. In BRU, they have a backup environment that I back up to dropbox, I then import that and put into the New environment on the new system. This has all of my previous archives which I can view and restore from. This is pretty simple. Is there something like this for YoYotta where I can take the Database of the archives and add them to the new computer system? TIA
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Thank you Tim, this is encouraging. I do have Argest Backup installed on the Mac mini and does seem to work,but the issue at hand is keeping me from using it.
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That is what I have figured, I have asked support at OWC to see if they have an updated driver, but I have yet to hear from them.
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I have the LG 34UM95. I have been working with it for over a month. I went from a bulky 2 monitor setup to this and it is great! I have a lot of desktop space for my aps. Yes if your GUI card can handle the higher rez, it is a good deal.
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Bob,
Thanks for your help on this.
I did try that to no avail. I did boot up in 10.8.5, and BRU PE saw the tape drive no problem. I’m not sure what I have done wrong in 10.9.2. for it not to be seen.
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Tim,
Yes, I just ran the config tool. and I only see my Raid on Channel 1. I do not see the Tape Drive. Looks like that could be the issue. I would be interested in a Webex session.
Thank you.
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John,
Thanks. That is the issue, when I launch BRU PE. The tape drive is on, but It come up with the dialogue saying that the The tape drive is not connected. Do you want to Continue or power on then start. Anyway, I hit continue, go to prefs. and to select my tape drive, and it’s a no go. I have also restarted the program to make sure it sees the tape drive, I still get the dialogue.
Todd Gill
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