Hi all, Does anyone have any practical experiences of migrating from a library containing drives from one manufacturer (i.e. HP LTO2) to a library populated with drives from another manufacturer (i.e. IBM LTO3)? Aside from the obvious TSM Device Driver/IBMtape driver changes on the host, the LTO specification suggests that for properly certified drives there should be no problem reading and writing to tapes written by different drive manufacturers. However, I'd be eager to learn of anyone's practical experiences of reading tapes in one manufacturer's drive that were originally written to in another's. Whilst I feel confident that a move from HP to IBM LTO drives is a sensible move in terms of drive performance and reliability, I want to understand if there are any additional risks in terms of compatibility and attempt to mitigate against them up front (i.e. regenerate offsite copies from new drives) rather than being faced with I/O errors when trying to recover some user's data at 3am one morning...
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