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unusual facts about tape drives



NetBackup

NetBackup comes with support for many hardware devices like tape drives, tape libraries, disk units, and supports, amongst many others, hot backups for major database products like Oracle, can natively backup and restore the virtual machines of major virtualization products like VMware Infrastructure, can use Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP), and has tape vaulting.


see also

3590

IBM 3590, a series of tape drives and corresponding magnetic tape data storage media formats developed by IBM

IBM 3480 Family

Various models of these tape drives were also marketed under other brands, including DEC, MP Tapes, Philips, Plasmon, Qualstar, Tandem, and Xcerta.

SA10

One of Systems Concepts' major products, the SA-10, was an interface which allowed PDP-10s to be connected to disk and tape drives designed for use with the channel interfaces of IBM mainframes.

Sun-1

½-inch 9-track reel-to-reel tape drives and QIC-02 ¼-inch cartridge tape drives were also added to the offering.

Virtual tape library

Outside of mainframe environment, tape drives and libraries mostly featured SCSI.