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Tape drive for Acronis Backup and recovery 11 virtual Edition

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Hello,

I am managing Acronis Backup and recovery 11 virtual Edition installed on a server and I want to buy the best compatible tape drive for data archiving that support tapes of size equal or more than 3 TB.
Please can you advise me or give me a model that I can order?

Thanks in advance for your help

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If you want a single tape with uncompressed 3TB then I think this is not possible at this time. You would need at least a LTO-6 tape with 3,2 TB uncompressed space (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape_Open). LTO5 (3TB compressed) would not match because compression is not always 2:1.

But LTO-6 is not available yet. I searched a little bit in the web and as i saw no other technology supports 3TB on a single tape either.

So if you don't want to split a backup on multiple tapes you have to wait for quite a while.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/15/lto_new_generations/ states that LTO-6 will launched late in 2012.

But these devices will cost a lot of money...