WHY does this have to be so damn difficult?

[jsbowden]

So...I bought a new tape library to replace the ancient Storagetek. I unboxed the shiny new Qualstar RLS-8204-20 with LTO4 tape drive and spent a good portion of my morning getting it up, running, and racked.

Veritas won't talk to it. I suspect those fuckers are gonna want yet another license fee for LTO support.

I hate backups.

I hate tape drives.

I hate robotic libraries.

I hate backup software.

I hate software companies.

Comments

[annewashere.livejournal.com]

Tape libraries are a thing of the devil.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

A properly made tape library is a generic SCSI stacker device and Just Works (TM), which this one and the old Storagetek do. Badly built tape libraries are things of the devil requiring special drivers that never work and cause system instability. We don't buy those.

[dlganger.livejournal.com]

I have much sympathy. When I found out we were using Veritas at my current company, I quickly drafted someone else to deal with backups.

Now, I'm out of IT entirely. Not My Problem(tm).

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

I'm still using a Just After Acquisition version of NetBackup, so it's not that bad. As backup software goes, Veritas is the least painful of anything not Amanda that I've used, but Amanda doesn't do what I need to do, unfortunately.