[Bacula-users] advice about tape drives

I have used Bacula for many years, since version 5. In the past, I have mentioned my two Nas's along with various Windows and Linux machines get backed up on a nightly basis to tape. Currently that tape drive is an LTO3 based drive. Some of the older backups are on LTO2 tapes. My tape drive is

Re: [Bacula-users] advice about tape drives

Alan, >From the Wikipedia article on LTO: - Up to and including LTO-7, an Ultrium drive *can read* data from a cartridge in its own generation and the two prior generations. LTO-8 drives can read LTO-7 and LTO-8 tape, but not LTO-6 tape.[29]

Re: [Bacula-users] advice about tape drives

On 23/04/2024 00:58, Alan Polinsky wrote: I have used Bacula for many years, since version 5. In the past, I have mentioned my two Nas's along with various Windows and Linux machines get backed up on a nightly basis to tape. Currently that tape drive is an LTO3 based drive. Some of the older ba

Re: [Bacula-users] advice about tape drives

Am 22.04.2024 um 16:58 schrieb Alan Polinsky: [...] I need to understand the backward capabilities of more recent drives. As a rule of thumb, LTO drives can write to one previous generation of tapes and read from two previous generations of tapes. (There are some exceptions for LTO8 and LTO9.

Re: [Bacula-users] advice about tape drives

Why not migrate the LTO-2 volumes to disk, then install whatever version of tape drive you wish and migrate the disk volumes to the new LTO tapes? On 4/22/24 11:29, Gary R. Schmidt wrote: On 23/04/2024 00:58, Alan Polinsky wrote: I have used Bacula for many years, since version 5. In the past,