On 18 June 2012 11:31, Ken Teh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> On 06/18/2012 11:31 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
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> 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?

For the boxes I have used, mt has worked and I expect tar to work. The
device shows up as /dev/st0

> Thanks for the responses so far.
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>



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