We talked a lot to those users asking us for spanning, focusing on why they preferred us building it to just using a product that was already available. FoundationĪs always, it’s the fundamental details that make a feature work really well. Speaking to a lot of customers (mainly because they kept emailing us pleading for the feature to be built), it was clear this was by far their biggest issue, and spanning was the single feature that would enhance their productivity the most. Different audiences different needs.īut, time and time again, Spanning kept coming up, even with those users with a straightforward, non-convoluted workflow. Canister is not a VEEAM, Retrospect, Yoyotta, or XenData. They’re not features for filmmakers but aimed at enterprises: deduplication, automation, block-level incremental backups, system backups. That means a lot of what’s considered a standard feature in the LTO landscape we quickly dismissed as “that’s not our turf”. If we can't make it simple, we won’t build it. Instead, just select everything you need and Canister will keep asking for new tapes until all is done.Īt Hedge, we go to great lengths to keep things really simple.
#NEOFINDER PLUGINS ARCHIVE#
No more need to cut up a hard drive’s contents into parts that fit a single tape, then archive them one by one to different tapes. In development and testing for over a year, Canister’s new Spanning capability allows you to archive more data than will fit on a single tape.
#NEOFINDER PLUGINS WINDOWS#
Today, we declare Canister to be a grown-up: it now has a dedicated team, a Windows version is in development, manufacturers love it, and we’re adding two features we found essential going forward - Spanning and Preflight Checks. That obviously was going to take time, and it did.
#NEOFINDER PLUGINS FULL#
Working with LTO has proven to be so full of caveats, pitfalls, and workarounds that Roelof and I, Hedge’s founders, took up Canister ourselves and have kept it separate from our regular app development process because we wanted to get it into software adulthood first. Progress on Canister has been slow but steady. That might sound like a lot, but it’s only a few percent of the total amount of updates Hedge has pushed out across all our products. That’s exactly the sort of challenge we like to take on, and so in Sept 2018, we released Canister version 1.0. It’s just the software layer that is about as user-friendly as a cornered rattlesnake. We said “sure, why not” but when we started looking at it, we were amazed by how archaic it all seemed.īut it quickly turned out that LTO is not archaic it all: it’s really **high-tech, to be honest.
Seldom has a journey been so winding and long as ours has been with Canister, Hedge’s archive software that has transformed the industry’s perception of LTO.īack in 2017, mLogic reached out to us, asking if we could do for LTO what we had done for backups with Hedge.
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