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xssfox :blobhaj_hearttrans:

I have automated my LTO tape label printing....

@xssfox This implies you have LTO backups, which is already impressive, and now you're automating that procedure...

How long before you get yourself a robot arm to swap tapes?

@davidmc @xssfox I got one of these arms for free from the local university when I was in middle school (: parents were unwilling to let me run a 240V line for it though so I had to get rid of it. I parted most of it out and their basement is still full of its parts, so joke's on them!

@xssfox How many tapes do you have at this point?

I have LTO6 backups for a archive project and that is 20xLTO6's in a briefcase, but I also have seemingly infinite LTO5's after buying a huge box of them for like 1£ a cartridge (see https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/lto-tape-backups-for-linux-nerds )

blog.benjojo.co.uk

@benjojo there's 31x LTO6 tapes allocated to various pools at the moment (mostly used), but I'll be adding probably about 8 more tapes over the next few days

@xssfox Cool! that's a lot of LTO6 for hobby-ish stuff! I'm personally proabbly gong to bite the bullet and upgrade to LTO7 or LTO8 at some point

@benjojo I fear the write speeds required for LTO7. LTO6 is already annoying enough with some of our jobs requiring spooling

@xssfox oh yeah. I lost the "don't spool" game long ago, so ultimately it makes little difference. Also high tbw SSDs are quite cheap (the only double the price of a normal consumer SSD with a terrible tbw) so I don't really see why not.

It also helps that I tend to write an entire tape at a time