Tape writing software?

[Willem van der Walt<willem@top.health.gov.za>]

Look at amanda.
I think it is included with 7.3, if not, it is with later versions of 
redhat.
hth
Willem


On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Peter Smith wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a Dell PowerEdge 2600 server with a DLT tape.  It runs RedHat 7.3.
>
> There are other servers on the network (100tx ethernet) with drives that are
> mounted as smbfs shares.
>
> I am unable to write directly to the tape from a smbfs share using tar,
> presumably because the network couldn't keep up.  The error was "tar: Error
> exit delayed from previous errors" , which is not a lot of help.
>
> I had hoped to add an IDE disk as a tape buffer, but there is no standard
> IDE support on the motherboard.  I cannot spare 50GB of SCSI disk for
> buffering.
>
> Is there any more sophisticated tape writing software which can handle
> buffering correctly?
>
> Regards,
> Peter Smith
> WBM Pty Ltd.
>
>
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