interface to tape drives. As a consequence, it relies on having a
correctly written OS tape driver. Bacula is known to work perfectly well
with SCSI tape drivers on FreeBSD, Linux, Solaris, and Windows machines,
-and it may work on other *nix machines, but we have not tested it.
+and it may work on other *nix machines.
+
Recently there are many new drives that use IDE, ATAPI, or
SATA interfaces rather than SCSI. On Linux the OnStream drive, which uses
the OSST driver is one such
developers to rectify this situation, but it will not be resolved in the
near future.
+Generally any modern tape drive (i.e. after 2010) will work out
+of the box with Bacula using the standard Bacula Device specification
+in the bacula-sd.conf file.
+
Even if your drive is on the list below, please check the
-\ilink{Tape Testing Chapter}{btape1} of this manual for
+\borgxrlink{Tape Testing}{btape1}{problems}{section} of the \problemsman{} for
procedures that you can use to verify if your tape drive will work with
Bacula. If your drive is in fixed block mode, it may appear to work with
Bacula until you attempt to do a restore and Bacula wants to position the
unknown:
\addcontentsline{lot}{table}{Supported Tape Drives}
-\begin{longtable}{|p{2.0in}|l|l|p{2.5in}|l|}
- \hline
-\multicolumn{1}{|c| }{\bf OS } & \multicolumn{1}{c| }{\bf Man. } &
-\multicolumn{1}{c| }{\bf Media } & \multicolumn{1}{c| }{\bf Model } &
-\multicolumn{1}{c| }{\bf Capacity } \\
- \hline {- } & {ADIC } & {DLT } & {Adic Scalar 100 DLT } & {100GB } \\
- \hline {- } & {ADIC } & {DLT } & {Adic Fastor 22 DLT } & {- } \\
- \hline {FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p1 amd64 } & {Certance} & {LTO } & {AdicCertance CL400 LTO Ultrium 2 } & {200GB } \\
- \hline {- } & {- } & {DDS } & {Compaq DDS 2,3,4 } & {- } \\
- \hline {SuSE 8.1 Pro} & {Compaq} & {AIT } & {Compaq AIT 35 LVD } & {35/70GB } \\
- \hline {- } & {Exabyte } & {- } & {Exabyte drives less than 10 years old } & {- } \\
- \hline {- } & {Exabyte } & {- } & {Exabyte VXA drives } & {- } \\
- \hline {- } & {HP } & {Travan 4 } & {Colorado T4000S } & {- } \\
- \hline {- } & {HP } & {DLT } & {HP DLT drives } & {- } \\
- \hline {- } & {HP } & {LTO } & {HP LTO Ultrium drives } & {- } \\
- \hline {- } & {IBM} & {??} & {3480, 3480XL, 3490, 3490E, 3580 and 3590 drives} & {- } \\
- \hline {FreeBSD 4.10 RELEASE } & {HP } & {DAT } & {HP StorageWorks DAT72i } & {- } \\
- \hline {- } & {Overland } & {LTO } & {LoaderXpress LTO } & {- } \\
- \hline {- } & {Overland } & {- } & {Neo2000 } & {- } \\
- \hline {- } & {OnStream } & {- } & {OnStream drives (see below) } & {- } \\
- \hline {FreeBSD 4.11-Release} & {Quantum } & {SDLT } & {SDLT320 } & {160/320GB } \\
- \hline {- } & {Quantum } & {DLT } & {DLT-8000 } & {40/80GB } \\
- \hline {Linux } & {Seagate } & {DDS-4 } & {Scorpio 40 } & {20/40GB } \\
- \hline {FreeBSD 4.9 STABLE } & {Seagate } & {DDS-4 } & {STA2401LW } & {20/40GB } \\
- \hline {FreeBSD 5.2.1 pthreads patched RELEASE } & {Seagate } & {AIT-1 } & {STA1701W} & {35/70GB } \\
- \hline {Linux } & {Sony } & {DDS-2,3,4 } & {- } & {4-40GB } \\
- \hline {Linux } & {Tandberg } & {- } & {Tandbert MLR3 } & {- } \\
- \hline {FreeBSD } & {Tandberg } & {- } & {Tandberg SLR6 } & {- } \\
- \hline {Solaris } & {Tandberg } & {- } & {Tandberg SLR75 } & {- } \\
- \hline
-
-\end{longtable}
+\LTXtable{\linewidth}{table_tapedrives}
There is a list of \ilink{supported autochangers}{Models} in the Supported
Autochangers chapter of this document, where you will find other tape drives
lose data when Bacula spans tapes. This is because the unpatched pthreads
library fails to return a warning status to Bacula that the end of the tape is
near. This problem is fixed in FreeBSD systems released after 4.11. Please see the
-\ilink{Tape Testing Chapter}{FreeBSDTapes} of this manual for
-{\bf important} information on how to configure your tape drive for
-compatibility with Bacula.
+\borgxrlink{Tape testing}{FreeBSDTapes}{problems}{section} of \problemsman{}
+for {\bf important} information on how to configure your tape drive for
+compatibility with \mbacula{}.
\section{Supported Autochangers}
\index[general]{Autochangers!Supported }
required to use (but you may) the same name in your Bacula conf resources.
-\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|c}
-Media Type & Drive Type & Media Capacity & Transfer Rate \\ \hline
-DDS-1 & DAT & 2 GB & ?? GB/hr \\ \hline
-DDS-2 & DAT & 4 GB & ?? GB/hr \\ \hline
-DDS-3 & DAT & 12 GB & 5.4 GB/hr \\ \hline
-Travan 40 & Travan & 20 GB & ?? GB/hr \\ \hline
-DDS-4 & DAT & 20 GB & 11 GB/hr \\ \hline
-VXA-1 & Exabyte & 33 GB & 11 GB/hr \\ \hline
-DAT-72 & DAT & 36 GB & 13 GB/hr \\ \hline
-DLT IV & DLT8000 & 40 GB & 22 GB/hr \\ \hline
-VXA-2 & Exabyte & 80 GB & 22 GB/hr \\ \hline
-Half-high Ultrium 1 & LTO 1 & 100 GB & 27 GB/hr \\ \hline
-Ultrium 1 & LTO 1 & 100 GB & 54 GB/hr \\ \hline
-Super DLT 1 & SDLT 220 & 110 GB & 40 GB/hr \\ \hline
-VXA-3 & Exabyte & 160 GB & 43 GB/hr \\ \hline
-Super DLT I & SDLT 320 & 160 GB & 58 GB/hr \\ \hline
-Ultrium 2 & LTO 2 & 200 GB & 108 GB/hr \\ \hline
-Super DLT II & SDLT 600 & 300 GB & 127 GB/hr \\ \hline
-VXA-4 & Exabyte & 320 GB & 86 GB/hr \\ \hline
-Ultrium 3 & LTO 3 & 400 GB & 216 GB/hr \\ \hline
-\end{tabular}
+\LTXtable{\linewidth}{table_ltodltspec}
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