Tape libraries

This section describes in detail how to use robotic tape devices as vaults for storing backup archives.

A tape library (robotic library) is a high-capacity storage device that contains the following:

• one or more tape drives
• multiple (up to several thousand) slots to hold tape cartridges
• one or more loaders (robotic mechanisms) intended for relocating the tape cartridges between the slots and the tape drives
• barcode readers (optional).