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?
@xssfox with barcodes?
@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 )
@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