@Donahue said in Adding tape drive:

at this point, I would have to get management buy in to really consider cloud, I want to evaluate the options before hand to know how much I should or shouldn't be pushing for the cloud. Recent conversations with @scottalanmiller have me questioning our historical reasons and motivations for why we use what we use. In my case, we have a mix of prior misinformed speculation and my limited personal experience.

I don't see a reason to emulate tape if I'm not going to use tape, but I really don't know

Well if you use tape, then no reason to emulate.

@thwr said in LTO tape library upgrade:

@penguinwrangler said in LTO tape library upgrade:

We are looking at going with LTO-8. The capacity and speed and the ability that it is offline and can be offsite extremely easy were all winners in our books. Offline meaning once the tape is in storage it is not on a network and can get hit by ransomware.

It's just a requirement for us. But yes, your points are valid. 12TB uncompressed per tape isn't that bad. I was looking for an upgrade because 1.5TB for LTO-5 isn't exactly what fits todays capacities.

We can't use cloud backup, hasn't been approved for us yet. So the capacity of the LTO-8 tapes is what we like.

Symantec (6+ years ago) had a completely different product that they wanted VM based customers to use instead of BE. I didn't want to manage two products so I bailed.