Hi Folks,
Just looking for a ballpark figure on new Tape Lib including drives (2 or 4).
We have a 10 year old IBM TS3200 - 48 slots two drives, the drives can read Ultrium 4 and 5.
It's starting to creak a bit and we also need a bit more capacity as far as tapes go.
New library might be able to get away with 24 slots (if substantially cheaper) as looking to go for l6/l7 tapes and drives.
The figure is just for forecasting to give me an idea of current pricing (most online sites either quote without drives or want you to fill in forms before quote and as I say I am just looking for a rough estimate...we have no plans at the moment to go cloud based for backup and DR due to other restrictions we have).
And one last thing will a newtabe lib with Ultrium l6/l7 drives be able to read and restore froml4/l5 drives (dose notneed to be able to write...