Automate cold storage with tape library

[jontm09]

Hi!

New to tape. Looking for a solution to automate cold storage of data as much as possible. Will a tape library be able to backup a network share that is larger than it is able to store on tape at any given time ?  Let's say that i need 50 LTO8 tapes to store my data, would it be possible to load in 24 tapes in a library, then when the tape library is full, change out the 24 tapes for 24 more tapes and so on untill the backup job is complete ?

I do not need access to the data, unless for disaster recovery. The tapes would be stored safely in a box on site.

Just having one drive and changing out the tape myself when full would take up too much of my time when filling that many tapes, but if i can load up like 8-12 at the time or more and just get a prompt when i need to add more tapes that would be fine. Since this is cold storage, it is preferable for me to not have a large tape library box that can fit all the tapes at once since i am going to empty it anyway.

[pragav]

Hi jontm09, 
Yes you could backup data of the network share to the tape drive. 
In the HPE storage portfolio there are tape library models available that can load 24 tapes in a single unit with LTO8 generation tapes support. 
Furthermore, if you would like to discuss on the technical front please share your contact details via private message. Thank you,

[Mortos]

There are tool to do that, in some of them you can define a set of tapes as a group and it will automatically chose the next tape when the first is full.

I am also just trying to find the best soution for our case... which is kinda similar. I wanna store more data then it can fit on 1 tape, and that possibly automatic. Not sure if this helps you, but it seems so far that my solution will be linux with ltfs.

Since there is a command for controlling the robotic arm (mtx) I can easily write scripts that will automate the whole process and move data ober a 10Gig connection from the Server to the Tape.