We demonstrate s3 object storage directly writing to tape using PoINT Archive Gateway.
We take a look on the Whiteboard about why and the various method of erasing a magnetic tape. We then demonstrate using the mt command on both Linux and Windows 11 with Cygwin to erase both a 9 track tape and LTO tape.
We show how to install MTX command on windows 11 as part of the Tape Data Storage series.
we demonstrate with an older IBM enterprise tape library the IBM 3490E and Quantum LTO tape library i3 scaler.
An overview of Archive Data storage covering all aspects at a high level.
9 track tape was originally released by IBM in 1964, we have connected one of the last made drives to a Linux machine so we can show basic operation of reading and writing to tape. The M4 9914 drive reads and writes all of the densities and also allows for the operations to be watched through the …
