Purchase decisions between BRU Producer Edition or Image Products PreRoll Post

[Goce Shamakoski]

Tom, Half a year ago I purchased BRU Producers Edition with two HP LTO6 Drives. My experience with the program has been very frustrating. GUI is very buggy, tapes are getting stuck in verification process. Many times when I need to restore a tape the catalog is missing, the list goes on and on. Tape dubler doesn’t work half the time!

When I have to archive projects worth millions of dollars I can’t afford to not be absolutely sure the tape is written properly and the software work reliably! I even purchased an extended phone support and every time I call the techs tell me my problem is a known bug with the version.

I’m reading a lot of people are having similar experience, I have stopped using BRU for now now and my only other option is HP StoreOpen LTFS which I’m not excited about but it works!

[Tim Jones]

Goce, which version of BRU PE are you using as this was fixed previously?

Also, your tapes are properly written (even with the version that had exhibited the stall on the second drive’s verification pass). You can always manually run a verification pass on any BRU formatted tape at any time.

And comparing that to LTFS, how are you verifying them at all using StoreOpen?

As for the missing catalogs, are you referring to a catalog for a tape on which the verification pass stalled? That was associated with what was causing the stall. You can always regenerate a missing catalog by importing the tape.

Tim
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Tim Jones
CTO – TOLIS Group, Inc.
https://www.tolisgroup.com
BRU … because it’s the RESTORE that matters!

[Goce Shamakoski]

I was using 3.1.6 till yesterday. Now I’m on 3.1.8 and the only problem I have so far is dubler mode doesn’t work. Every time I try to make two tapes it get stuck and I have to Force Quit.

I realized I could insert the tape and use Tape Import to bring back the Catalog. It still makes me nervous especially when I have to search for files!

With StoreOpen I just hope the files were written properly since I can’t verify them. One reason why I switched to BRU.

Another big issue I have is after I write a tape with BRU and I try to identify it it shows as NON-BRU unknown tape. I have found if I restart BRU and then try again the tape shows as normal.

[Kiki Muchtar]

Hi Sam, which software you did choose to backup to LTO in the end? And why?