USB 3.0 LTO6 Tape drive for Backup

[ichbinsnur]

Hi community!

i just came across with this, while searching for a fast/reliable Off Site Backup Archive Solution for Our NAS.

http://www.unitex.co.jp/en/products/har ... s_lt50usb/

Currently we run a SAS LTO 5 drive on a dedicated Machine to do the Workstation Backups.
Works great for a couple of years now.

The NAS TVS-863 (8x 3TB RAID 6) is also backed up to LTO (via Network) but even with Gbit Ethernet it takes forever to get a Full Backup finished.

Has anyone heard of or already has experience with that drives?
If that puppy could be run directly off the NAS it would be an enormous time saver and would ease Backup consolidation as well.

I know, the enty costs are quite high for LTO (too high for private use) but speed and reliability will pay off relatively quick.
And when using LTFS for File storage on the tapes it's also easy to retrieve singe files.

[Don]

Tape drives are not supported on QNAP.

[dolbyman]

native transfer speed of LTO6 is "only" 150MB\s so it would not dramatically increase vs Gbit Ethernet

[dolbyman]

never said LTO drives are bad, I have used them in the past, but as said before without an external host and application to "pull" your backups, you cannot use the LTO tapes

[sarangtc@gmail.com]

would a virtual machine on the qnap be able to access the shares as well as tape via USB 3.0 or SAS?

[adam52]

It would appear that Qnap does in fact support tape backups:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vJCFgHUNQQ

[dolbyman]

rdx are removable disk catridges qnap even sold a nas at one point with an rdx slot

and whatever was introduced here never came out for sale