[Jamie Watt]

Bob, I normally avoid entering into discussions with people who use CAPS in vain. So I will not do so now. I hope that you can forgive me for trying to save money.

I ended up BUYING PreRoll Post as it makes my life EASIER and is good VALUE.

I figured out the relevant Terminal commands which did improve the speed of working with files on the LTO tape, but PreRoll Post offered a lot more functionality and a better workflow than LTFS/ Terminal.

[Jamie Watt]

A belated thank you Steve. I’ll give it a go now that energy prices have fallen.

[Jamie Watt]

I’m sure that there is nothing wrong with using BRU. I had a bit more of an issue with spending $500 on it after the original outlay on the LTO drive/media/interface… so I was hoping to keep costs down having thought that I’d finished the Backup/Archival spend.

I did figure out how to use Terminal for basic operations. It brought back not unpleasant memories of MS-DOS, but I have to train non-techies in the use of LTO for archival etc, so I think I will have to shell out for a pretty GUI. I am going to ask Santa for either BRU PE or PreRoll Post.

I’m favouring Pre Roll Post at the moment… for the following reasons given by Kevin Francis in another post, but still open to BRU PE if anyone can give me more compelling reasons for using it…

PreRollPost uses LTFS, an open standard that is becoming more and more widely adopted, does provide MD5 checksum verification, and orders the files for quick backup and restore, and stores archive data in a MySQL Lite format, which is searchable within the application.

[Jamie Watt]

Hi, just had the chance to test this. It’s exactly as you say. Thanks for the assistance.