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Tape Device Management 14-1
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You need to manage a tape device when you back up data from the filer to tape or
when you recover data from tape to the filer.
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This chapter discusses the following topics:
Displaying information about tape devices attached to the filer
Positioning tapes
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This section describes how the filer displays tape drive information about different
types of tape drives. You need the tape information for planning your backup.
This section does not describe how to display information about tape drives on
remote hosts. The filer can only display information about local tape drives.
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Qualified tape drives are the tape drives that Dell tests with the filer. These tape
drives are on the Dell price list.