Chapter 16

Tape Device Management

Introduction to tape device management

Why you want to manage a tape device

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.

Scope of this chapter

This chapter discusses the following topics:

• Displaying information about tape devices attached to the filer
• Positioning tapes

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