HP has just made LTO5 a 1.5Tb thumb drive.

[Paul J Steinberg]

Just an FYI. HP have released StoreOpen software for Windows (Linux and Mac already supported) for their LTO5 drives.

I'm only a brown-belt nerd and have been wrestling with backup software for LTO5. It's either been way too complicated or hasn't worked very well. StoreOpen effectively turns the LTO5 tape into a thumb drive so you can just drag n' drop files on/off it. Software is free and the tapes can be read by any LTFS software once you've copied your files to tape. Tapes store 1.5Tb without compression so it's a great way to archive my jobs.

http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise...le-system.html


Cheers!

[paul engstrom]

Any idea how data verification works with this? That's one of the nice things about BRU--pretty simple with easily confirmable verified backups.

[Paul J Steinberg]

Just installed and testing it now. There is a "Check Wizard" that I'll click on once I finish this tape. Other guys like Jeff K may know more about LTFS. BRU isn't available for PC so this seems like a great solution and dead simple.

[Tom Daigon]

Just an FYI. HP have released StoreOpen software for Windows (Linux and Mac already supported) for their LTO5 drives.

I'm only a brown-belt nerd and have been wrestling with backup software for LTO5. It's either been way too complicated or hasn't worked very well. StoreOpen effectively turns the LTO5 tape into a thumb drive so you can just drag n' drop files on/off it. Software is free and the tapes can be read by any LTFS software once you've copied your files to tape. Tapes store 1.5Tb without compression so it's a great way to archive my jobs.

http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise...le-system.html


Cheers!

Any equipment suggestions for us folks that dont own the technology yet, like LTO5 hardware and preferred tapes?

[Paul J Steinberg]

Jeff K and the knowledgeable folks will give you a better answer but I went with an HP Ultrium 3000 LTO5 Drive (http://www8.hp.com/uk/en/products/ta...ml?oid=4150350) as it seems very well supported. You'll need an SAS card to support it, I went with an Atto H680 (http://www.attostore.com/sas-sata-hb...s-sas-h680.htm), also because it seems very well supported. The drive sure isn't cheap but I've been archiving to spinning drives up until now, I accidentally dropped one from about 1m height and it completely bricked. Two jobs gone. The next day I bought this drive.

Support from HP and Atto has been great. HP seem really keen to support the media industry with this technology and are putting their full support behind this LTFS format.

[Jarek Zabczynski]

They really need to make a system that doesn't need a SAS card to operate. Thunderbolt, USB 3.0 and even eSATA are all more than fast enough for this stuff. It's pretty ridiculous if you ask me.

[Walter R]

Not to derail this thread, but we are looking to upgrade our LTO-4 to a new LTO-5 and I'm wondering if anyone can explain the difference between the half heigh and full height external drives. For instance, why buy a HP 3280 instead of the 3000? Or is there really no difference besides price?

Thanks,
Walter

[Matt Gerard]

We've been archiving projects to bare drives for years (yes I spin them up every 6 months) but we also have been archiving those drives to LTO4. Its a slick system, we archive to 750 gig drives, then each drive gets mirrored to a tape. Problem now is that 750's are getting hard to find, so we get 1.5tb and partition it to 2 750's.

Right now I am being forced to use retrospect, but I am slowly trying to move away to either a Presstore or BRU alternative. Our Quantum is SCSI, yes, it would be nice to have a more common interface on our next drive.

[Costelloe Michael]

I've just taken delivery of a Tandberg LTO5, recommendation of my mac solutions provider. It has unlimited backup for the life of the drive and can be mounted as a hard drive on the desktop. Apparently, that is as it is still in it's wrapping!

[M Most]

Unless I'm mistaken, this really just seems to be a GUI for LTFS management. LTFS has been around for over a year now, so it's certainly not "new." But it is nice that HP has gone through the trouble of designing a GUI for it.