[pbs-devel] [PATCH proxmox-backup] docs: tape: clarify LTO-4/5 support

Dominik Csapak d.csapak at proxmox.com
Mon May 3 11:27:46 CEST 2021


some features we need (e.g. READ POSITION long form) are only officially
available with LTO-5, but work on many LTO-4 drives, so move LTO-4 to
'best-effort' support.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Csapak <d.csapak at proxmox.com>
---
 docs/tape-backup.rst | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/tape-backup.rst b/docs/tape-backup.rst
index 10a5ef5d..1812acc8 100644
--- a/docs/tape-backup.rst
+++ b/docs/tape-backup.rst
@@ -67,8 +67,10 @@ tape compression feature has no advantage.
 Supported Hardware
 ------------------
 
-Proxmox Backup Server supports `Linear Tape-Open`_ generation 4 (LTO-4)
-or later.
+Proxmox Backup Server supports `Linear Tape-Open`_ generation 5 (LTO-5)
+or later and has best-effort support for generation 4 (LTO-4). While
+many LTO-4 systems are known to work, some might need firmware updates or
+do not implement necessary features to work with Proxmox Backup Server.
 
 Tape changing is carried out using the SCSI Medium Changer protocol,
 so all modern tape libraries should work.
-- 
2.20.1






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