The LTO Show Take
Archiware P5 Backup has been quietly doing what most shops still handle with a patchwork of scripts: landing one backup job simultaneously to disk, LTO tape, and cloud from a single, platform-agnostic interface. For archive and backup teams already running LTO libraries, the software tier is often the hidden cost that makes tape hard to justify to management—P5 Backup attacks that problem directly with policy-driven media labeling and retention controls on your LTO drives, no vendor lock-in required. If you're evaluating software to anchor an LTO cold tier in a multi-target backup strategy, this is a product worth a serious look: https://www.archiware.com/products/p5-backup
The Story
Archiware's P5 Backup is a cross-platform backup application that enables IT and archive teams to write server data to local disk, LTO tape libraries (direct-attach or SAN-connected), and cloud object storage—including Amazon S3 and S3-compatible endpoints—within a single job scheduler. The software runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows servers, supports LTO-9 and prior LTO generations, and manages backup workflows through a plan-and-job model with media labeling, retention policies, and multi-target write capability. P5 Backup is aimed at backup architects and storage leads managing heterogeneous environments who need a unified protection stack without being locked to a single storage medium.
Source: Archiware — P5 Backup product page (archiware.com)
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— The LTO Show Editorial Staff