Storage Devices and Media Types Supported by Backup

Backup ships with the following list of supported storage devices and corresponding backup media types:

• Half-inch magnetic tape drives (himt)

• Quarter-inch cartridge tape drives (qic)

• Four-millimeter (DAT) tape drives (4mm)

• Eight-millimeter tape drives (8mm)

• Eight-millimeter five GB tape drives (8mm 5GB)

• 3480 tape drives (3480)

• 4890 tape drives (4890)

• 9490 Timberline tape drives (9490)

• SD3 high-speed tape drives (SD3)

• Digital linear tape drives (dlt)

• VHS tape drives (VHS)

• Optical disk drives (optical)

• Magnetic disk drives (optical)

• Filesystem (file)

• dst high-speed tape drives (dst)

• dtf high-speed tape drives (dtf)

• 3590 high-speed tape drives (3590)

• 3570 tape drives (3570)

• Logical volumes (logical)