LTO Tape Cleaner | Analyzer
LTO Tape Cartridges have limited life expectancy. The moving components inside of the cartridges can wear out. They can be damaged by misadjusted or contaminated tape drives. Tape drives can be contaminated by cartridges and therefore require constant maintenance.
Defective cartridges and tape drives cause problems
- Failures of archive back-ups
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loss of time
- loss of data if real-time
- Failures during restore
loss of data
- Contamination
- Tape drives contaminate cartridges
- Cartridges contaminate tape drives
- Expensive
- Cost to rerun job
- Cost to reconstruct data
- How to identify
- Not possible by visual inspection
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