UNITEX LTFS3000

LTO Tape File System Software

Features
Advantages
Structure
Specification

Enables all operations/management
from one GUI window

Features

Easy operation from one GUI window

To achieve more user friendly operatability, all functions are put into one GUI window. UNITEX LTFS3000 utility enables intuitive operation even for the users who use LTFS for the first time.

Simultaneous operation of multiple drives

Enables simultaneous operation of multiple LTO drives in one system. It save you lots of time in case of necessity of backup media etc.

Enables move/copy of the data by drag-and-drop operation from Mac OS X Finder

User can handle data in LTO tape with file-by-file basis like hard disk or USB memory. Enables copy/move/deletion of the files by drag-and-drop on Windows Explorer or Mac OS X Finder by making LTO tape a directory. Also enables OS standard file/folder operation such as copy command through command prompt.

Enables move/copy of the data by drag-and-drop operation from Windows Explorer or Mac OS X Finder

Advantages

Enables share & exchange of data under multiple OS environment (Windows, Mac OSX, Linux)

It works as a common file system under multiple OS environment. It is suitable to archive Cold Data which will not be used frequently and needs to keep long term such as large capacity of unstructured data like 4K, 8K or 3D.

By generation management function of recording data, supports recovery of the data recorded in the past

Rollback feature of LTFS enables to return the data of LTFS tape to any generation. As a result, it is possible to restore the file already deleted or previous file before overwrite. Rollback of UNITEX LTFS3000 tape can be made by "Rollback, Repair" button on the utility screen.

Large capacity 12TB is available easily
(when LTO-8 tape is used)

Archive of video assets
Delivery of the video related post production work
Production, storage and delivery in the media industry
Storage and delivery of CAD/CAM design at manufacturers
Image processing and medical records in the medical field
Long-term storage and collective management of video data of the surveillance camera

Structure

What’s LTFS?

Tape is divided into two parts in index partition and data partition (partitioning). Information of data is stored to index partition. And it enables direct search of data.

Specification

UNITEX LTFS3000 for MacOSX

UNITEX LTFS3000 for MacOSX needs the following OS and computer in which the software can work.

Name	Equipment/Environment
Supported OS	macOS 10.15, macOS 11, macOS 12, macOS 13, macOS 14, macOS 15
Supported Media	・LTO Ultrium 9 tape ・LTO Ultrium 8 tape ・LTO Ultrium 7 Tape ・LTO Ultrium 6 Tape ・LTO Ultrium 5 Tape *WORM media is not supported
LTO Tape Drive	[USB Series] ・UNITEX LT90H USB ・UNITEX LT80H2 USB ・UNITEX LT70H2 USB [USB/SAS Series] ・UNITEX LT90H USB/SAS ・UNITEX LT80H2 USB/SAS ・UNITEX LT70H2 USB/SAS

UNITEX LTFS3000 for Linux

UNITEX LTFS3000 for Linux needs the following OS and computer in which the software can work.

Name	Equipment/Environment
Supported OS	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Supported Media	・LTO Ultrium 9 Tape ・LTO Ultrium 8 Tape ・LTO Ultrium 7 Tape ・LTO Ultrium 6 Tape ・LTO Ultrium 5 Tape *WORM media is not supported
LTO Tape Drive	[USB Series] ・UNITEX LT90H USB ・UNITEX LT80H2 USB ・UNITEX LT70H2 USB [USB/SAS Series] ・UNITEX LT90H USB/SAS ・UNITEX LT80H2 USB/SAS ・UNITEX LT70H2 USB/SAS

UNITEX LTFS3000 LTO Tape File System Software

Enables all operations/managementfrom one GUI window