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.

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[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.