Using LTO (Tape) Library for cold backup

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Using LTO Tapes to backup your TrueNAS?!

Preface: I typically start these types of articles with a definition of the title and some explanation. Today I am going to break that trend, and jump into an anecdote from my professional life. Just about 5 years ago, I started as the Datacenter Operations Manager for a large public school district. As part of my “orientation” my director went through several key systems, and one of them was our backup strategy. At that time, we had two datacenters, each with warm backups of the other’s virtu…