2026-10-28 01:05 UTC
@rubenerd@bsd.network they can be a bit of a pain to work with - very different to a HDD/SSD, but you probably already know this. A good tip @jpm@aus.social gave me is to make sure the source of the files is much faster than the tape drive, otherwise it stops and starts, so takes way longer than it should and sounds horrible (and could damage the tape)
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@rubenerd@bsd.network 2026-10-28 01:07
@decryption@aus.social @jpm@aus.social Good call! I've got a lot of experience with LTO at work, but only in read operations (restoring backups, doing ingests to cloud storage, etc). Will keep that in mind. *Writing* stuff is something I've only ever done on Ditto and Travan drives in my Retrocomputing Tragic™ setup.