https://qanda.digipres.org/tag/tape Powered by Question2Answer https://qanda.digipres.org/1174/do-you-have-any-ltfs-tape-library-recommendations <p> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hello all,</span></p> <div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <br> <div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"> My institution currently uses LTO tape as part of our backup strategy for both business and collections data.&nbsp; We are both scaling up the number of tapes we create and are seeking to switch to the LTFS standard (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape_File_System)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape_File_System)</a> for our collections data.&nbsp; We are looking for an LTFS-compliant tape library to help us increase our capacity, and I'm hoping that some of you might be able to share some details about what you're doing...</div> <div style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;"> <ul> <li style="line-height: 17px;"> If you use tape for backups, do you use LTO?&nbsp; If you use LTO, do you use LTFS or a different standard/format?</li> <li style="line-height: 17px;"> What kind of tape drive/library set up do you have?</li> <li style="line-height: 17px;"> What software do you use to manage your hardware?</li> </ul> </div> </div> <p> &nbsp;</p> https://qanda.digipres.org/1174/do-you-have-any-ltfs-tape-library-recommendations Tue, 11 Dec 2018 14:44:05 +0000 https://qanda.digipres.org/198/what-encryption-would-using-tape-long-term-storage-transport there are different options for encrypting at the drive, fabric, server side for encrypting data for placement on LTO tape. but what are the considerations for long term preservation use cases. And for interoperation if sending between instituations - long term keys (loss or lockin) etc. https://qanda.digipres.org/198/what-encryption-would-using-tape-long-term-storage-transport Mon, 21 Jul 2014 17:53:56 +0000