We back up to disk then duplicate to tape for offsite storage. Not quite ready for cloud backups yet. I am wondering if anyone has any experience with Quantum LTO-9 tape drives with Veeam backup. I have quotes for two models. TD-L92BN-AR and TD-L93CN-AR. Thanks.
Answer
Quantum tape drives
Best answer by Chris.Childerhose
I have used Dell tape library products for years but they are discontinuing their tape products. I think my main concern is if Quantum tape drives are decent. TY
As far as I know Quantum are decent as we run some here where I work for different services.
+21What specifically do you want to know? No experience with that model but it should work fine. Veeam uses the Tape Server to communicate with the library/tape drive.
Chris Childerhose - VMCA2024 | VMCE2023 | VMCE-SP2024 | Veeam Vanguard 8* | Veeam Legend 5* | VUG Canada Leader | vExpert 6* | Toronto VMUG Leader | VCAP-DCV/VCP-DCV | Object First Ace | Cisco Champion | Twitter: @cchilderhose | Blog Site – https://just-virtualization.tech
I have used Dell tape library products for years but they are discontinuing their tape products. I think my main concern is if Quantum tape drives are decent. TY
+21I have used Dell tape library products for years but they are discontinuing their tape products. I think my main concern is if Quantum tape drives are decent. TY
As far as I know Quantum are decent as we run some here where I work for different services.
+16In my experience Quantum is a decent provider.
Have used some Quantum tape products in a customer project some years ago.
Jochen (Joe) Meixner | Veeam Vanguard 2024 | Veeam Legend 2021 - 2024 | Veeam Certified Architect (VMCA) | X: @JoMeix | BlueSky: @jmeixner.bsky.social
+3Veeam is known to be hardware agnostic, all it requires is LTO3 and higher. I had many customers using Quantum and it worked very well
+11As far as I know, Quantum is the only active tape libraries manufacturer. 🤣
+16As far as I know, Quantum is the only active tape libraries manufacturer. 🤣
IBM and HPE are manufacturing and selling tape products, too. 😎
Enter your E-mail address. We'll send you an e-mail with instructions to reset your password.