I'm here for my latest sysadmin question. I need to be backing up 100GB of raw data (might compress to 70 or 80GB if we're lucky).

I'm currently considering LTO2 at 200GB native and that should tide me over for quite a while.

Does anyone have any opinions on the various tape technologies?

We previously had DDS4 and DLT IV drives and the media/drives seem to be reliable enough. The software was more of a problem than the hardware.

AIT seems a bit expensive.
DDS5 doesn't give me the capacity.
SLDT is an option.

Also, any recommendations on software? The previous software was Tapeware where we probably got what we paid for (i.e. bundled with the tape drive)

Thanks guys