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.