On 06/18/2012 11:31 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
An LTO-5 drive is backwards compatible with LTO-4,3 (and maybe 2,1) drives. It is one advantage of the LTO format that they do a lot of backwards compatibility. The drives should look about the same to the hardware. We have LTO-5 library from Quantum which bacula uses without any special software.
The LTO page on Wikipedia says that a current generation LTO drive will read tapes from "at least" 2 prior generations. I have no experience with these tapes; only throwing this blurb into the discussion. Am I right to assume that I can use the mt program for a LTO-5 SAS type drive? That 'tar' will work just fine? Or do we also need to migrate to more "modern" software like bacula? Thanks for the responses so far.
