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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/samuelncui on 2023-09-26 11:07:02+00:00.
Considering the market's lack of open-source tape management systems, I have slowly developed one since August 2022. I spend lots of time on it and want to benefit more people than myself. So, if you like it, please give me a star and pull requests! Here is a description of the tape manager:
YATM is a first-of-its-kind open-source tape manager for LTO tape via LTFS tape format. It performs the following features:
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- Depends on LTFS, an open format for LTO tapes. You don't need to be bundled into a private tape format anymore!
- A frontend manager, based on GRPC, React, and Chonky file browser. It contains a file manager, a backup job creator, a restore job creator, a tape manager, and a job manager.
- The file manager allows you to organize your files in a virtual file system after backup. Decouples file positions on tapes with file positions in the virtual file system.
- The job manager allows you to select which tape drive to use and tells you which tape is needed while executing a restore job.
- Fast copy with file pointer preload, uses ACP. Optimized for linear devices like LTO tapes.
- Sorted copy order depends on file position on tapes to avoid tape shoe-shining.
- Hardware envelope encryption for every tape (not properly implemented now, will improve as next step).