Tape Drives

Is there any way to send commands to a TS3200 Tape Drive From an AS/400

Are there any API's that allow you to isuues coammands to a TS3200 tape library. i.e. move tapes between locations

AS400 Command

How would you configure a tape drive off your production system over to test system? System is TS3200 / 3573-TL Software/Hardware used: System is TS3200 / 3573-TL

Disaster recovery

Hi guys, I'm planning to put a DR strategy in place for my firm. I have the option of backing up our data & system volume to an external drive or tape drive. However, I have been having challenges backing up to a tape drive. Do you think external drive is a better option?

How can I reduce backup time on AS/400 with LTO2 tape drives?

how i acn reduce backup time on AS400 with LTO2 tap drivs, is there any configuration can improve this task

Which tape drives are most popular on iSeries?

Hi, I'm trying to get my company to buy me a small i-series for home and I need to know which tape drives and which tapes are the most commonly used on smaller i-series. Most of our customers still use QIC 1/4" cartridges/drives, but what other options are commonly used? I don't want to get...

Does Netware 6.5 SP5 support LTO4 tape drives

Does Netware 6.5 SP5 support LTO4 tape drives user submitted

I RECECEIVED A CPPEA55 ERROR MESSAGE

MY TAPE DRIVE WENT DEAD PULLED IT OUT. I ISSUED A PWRDWNSYS COMMAND. IT WENT DOWN BUT I DID NOT UNPLUG THE BOX. AS SOON AS I BROUGHT THE BOX BACK UP I RECEIVED A CPPEA55 ERROR MESSAGE.

Iseries fails to boot

I have a v5r4 820 model that failed. Error code in display is 284C3203 which pointed to I/O problem for either system board or Disk controller. I replace both and the only way I can get past this error is by using the new disk card with the new RAID memory. The old RAID memory card seems to have...

reassign the drives automatically withoput the use of the console

We have a 525 with 2 tape drives. Our prod backups occur at 1:00 am to savfs and then at 5:00 am the savfs are put to tape Our dev backups occur at 12:00 am to savfs and then when we come in we use the HMC to manually reassign the drives to the 2 dev partitions and the we sav the savfs to tape. ...

Encryption key management

Looking for info on encryption of data for backup purposes, either at the tape drive, VTL, SAN switch or some type of appliance in the backup path. Encryption Key management is more critical than the encryption solution. This request for help was originally submitted to the Research Assistant on...

LTO HH

Simple question...a half-height tape drive is different from an 'ordinary' tape drive how?

Backup Exec Not Reading full Capacity of Media

I have not been able to backup in over two weeks because of an issue with Backup Exec not accepting my media... These are 400GB tapes and it is limiting them to 196GB. Is there any reason for this? As it is, we backup over 250GB a night (and growing). Eventually even the 400GB tapes are not...

Attention Light on Tape Drive I5 Model 520

We have an I5 Model 520, with a 5755 tape drive attached. We upgraded from V5R3 to V5R4 about a month ago and shortly after, the attention light on the tape came on (blinks). We thought maybe an IPL would clear this up or by cleaning the tape drive several times, but no luck. We can't seem to...