From: Dietmar Maurer <dietmar@proxmox.com>
To: Proxmox Backup Server development discussion
<pbs-devel@lists.proxmox.com>,
Dominik Csapak <d.csapak@proxmox.com>
Subject: [pbs-devel] applied: [PATCH proxmox-backup] docs: tape: clarify LTO-4/5 support
Date: Tue, 4 May 2021 13:22:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2b5ab4e9-0310-db0a-cd68-d817ed5b523e@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210503092746.6597-1-d.csapak@proxmox.com>
applied
On 5/3/21 11:27 AM, Dominik Csapak wrote:
> some features we need (e.g. READ POSITION long form) are only officially
> available with LTO-5, but work on many LTO-4 drives, so move LTO-4 to
> 'best-effort' support.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dominik Csapak <d.csapak@proxmox.com>
> ---
> docs/tape-backup.rst | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/docs/tape-backup.rst b/docs/tape-backup.rst
> index 10a5ef5d..1812acc8 100644
> --- a/docs/tape-backup.rst
> +++ b/docs/tape-backup.rst
> @@ -67,8 +67,10 @@ tape compression feature has no advantage.
> Supported Hardware
> ------------------
>
> -Proxmox Backup Server supports `Linear Tape-Open`_ generation 4 (LTO-4)
> -or later.
> +Proxmox Backup Server supports `Linear Tape-Open`_ generation 5 (LTO-5)
> +or later and has best-effort support for generation 4 (LTO-4). While
> +many LTO-4 systems are known to work, some might need firmware updates or
> +do not implement necessary features to work with Proxmox Backup Server.
>
> Tape changing is carried out using the SCSI Medium Changer protocol,
> so all modern tape libraries should work.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-04 11:23 UTC|newest]
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2021-05-03 9:27 [pbs-devel] " Dominik Csapak
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