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I have worked in tsaroge administration since 1986. You did a pretty good job on your article, but it has actually become even more complex than your article states. I did not see any reference to how many companies are virtualizing their tape systems. I helped IBM test their first VTS in Texas while it was still in beta in the mid 1990s. Since tapes were so difficult, expensive to handle and poorly utilized VTSs were developed. The backups for the operating system think they are writing to a bank of tape drives, but the VTS is actually writing the data to a disk raid array. The VTS then can take multiple tape images on the array(s) and stack them together with other tape images to fill today’s large capacity tape media. The VTS can automatically duplicate the physical tape and you can have multiple VTSs in different locations where the data can be automatically replicated between them for disaster recovery. Also as tape data expires and the valid data on tape drops below the desired threshold, all the data is automatically copied to new tapes in a reclamation process. The VTS can also spit out copies of tapes for vaulting and will automatically eject tapes it determines having media problems (which can still have data that could be retrieved).