Dell Power Volt 124T software

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Hello all
I just want to know someone here is using Dell Power Volt 124T as tape backup.
I just get it but I would like to use Linux redhat 6.3 server as OS on my backup server.
Can tell me if you know any open source software I can use to drive it .

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Not that this is particularly network operations related, but...

A quick Google search (https://www.google.com/search?q=Dell+Power+Volt+124T+red+hat+enterprise&oq=Dell+Power+Volt+124T+red+hat+enterprise&aqs=chrome..69i57.6018j0j7&sourceid=chrome&espv=2&es_sm=141&ie=UTF-8) yielded the User’s Guide (ftp://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_ser_stor_net/esuprt_powervault/powervault-124t_User’s%20Guide12_en-us.pdf) which appears to show how to use the Power Vault 124 with Red Hat Linux.

Dell and IBM historically have had decent support for their products with "Enterprise" versions of Red Hat, Ubuntu, and SuSE.

RAY SANDERS
Senior Systems Engineer
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Hello,

You can use Bacula.

this is a CentOS 6 running bacula:

# mtx -f /dev/changer inquiry
Product Type: Medium Changer
Vendor ID: 'DELL '
Product ID: 'PV-124T '
Revision: '0086'
Attached Changer API: No

# mtx -f /dev/changer status
  Storage Changer /dev/changer:1 Drives, 8 Slots ( 0 Import/Export )
Data Transfer Element 0:Empty
      Storage Element 1:Full :VolumeTag=000040L2
      Storage Element 2:Full :VolumeTag=000009L2
      Storage Element 3:Full :VolumeTag=000035L2
      Storage Element 4:Full :VolumeTag=000033L2
      Storage Element 5:Full :VolumeTag=000043L2
      Storage Element 6:Full :VolumeTag=000045L2
      Storage Element 7:Full :VolumeTag=000039L2
      Storage Element 8:Full :VolumeTag=000041L2

# /opt/bacula/scripts/mtx-changer /dev/changer list 0 /dev/sr0 0
1:000040L2
2:000009L2
3:000035L2
4:000033L2
5:000043L2
6:000045L2
7:000039L2
8:000041L2

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AMANDA (http://amanda.org/) also supports the 124T

See here:
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Tapetype_definitions#Dell_PV124T_LTO3

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Basically anything. It works as a standard SCSI tape changer device using
mtx, my, and your favorite archiving software, tar, Amanda, bacula, arkeia,
many others.