Thanks. I found that also, which will be an issue for us since we have
so many LTO2s still in our cycles. I will have to review long term
viability of investing in a new LTO4 as well as replacing the LTO2
tapes at the same time.

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:43 AM, Scott Kaufman at HQ<[email protected]> wrote:
> We've been researching replacing our LTO2 tape library with LTO4, and the 
> information we've gathered is:
> LTO drives are read/write compatible with the previous generation of tapes & 
> just read compatible with the 2nd previous generation of tapes.  So...
>
> LTO4 drives can:
> read/write to LTO3 tapes
> Read only to LTO2 tapes
> Cannot work with LTO1 tapes
>
>
> Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mqcarp [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 8:34 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: OT: LTO4 Back Up Processes
>
> Our LTO3 library just hit the skids so before I look at replacing it I
> am looking around to make sure this is still best practice. Other than
> those that do back up to disk and archive to tape processes, is LTO4
> libraries best practice, and are they backward compatible to LTO3 and
> LTO2 tapes (I will double check this elsewhere also, just wanted to
> throw it out and get experienced feedback).
>
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