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guerby on June 14, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The future of data storage is still magnetic tape ...

Proxmox Backup Server has LTO tape support now:

https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/tape-backup.html

IIRC they rewrote the tape driver in userspace in rust.

avhception on June 14, 2021 [–]

Huh. I glossed over the article but found no explanation for why that was necessary. Do you happen to know by any chance?

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