UB Tape Usage Policy

Tape Usage Policy
(Updated 3.24.2004)

Overview
Tape Storage is no longer available for tape owners.

Standards

We have been informed by the maker of REELlibrarian that they will no longer be supporting the software. REELlibrarian was a networked tape management system on UBUnix which controlled a centrally stored tape library. It allowed users to request an operator to mount or unmount a tape, to read and write data to/from the tape, and to store information about the tape in a central database. The loss of support coupled with the extremely limited usage of the tape service has led CIT to terminate this service as of May 7th, 2004 or earlier, if all current tapes are withdrawn from the library.

CIT suggests that users wishing to maintain the information stored on their tapes should consider converting from tape to CD or DVD media. To that end there are many commercial tape reading and conversion services companies available.

CIT provides the following information as a service; none of the listed companies are under contract to the University and these are suggestions rather than recommendations.

eMag Solutions
3495 Piedmont Road
Eleven Piedmont Center, Suite 500
Atlanta, Georgia 30305
Phone: 800-364-9838
404-995-6060
Fax: 800-334-8273
404-872-8247

web: http://www.emaglink.com/

Muller Media Conversions, Inc.
32 Broadway, New York, NY 10004
U.S. Toll-Free: (800)OLD-2-NEW
or: (212)344-0474
fax: (212)968-0789
Email: info@mullermedia.com

web: http://www.mullermedia.com/index.htm

NDCI-National Data Conversion Institute
5 East 16th Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003
Phone Toll Free: (877) 777-NDCI,
or: (212) 463-7511
Fax: (212) 645-9327
E-Mail: info@ndci.com.

web: http://www.ndci.com/home_frame.html

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