Mr. Hogwild,
I tried the instructions you linked for IBM Spectrum and it installed, but I got the same error that I had later with the HPE version. It has something to do with privileges so when you do the install, you have to "run as administrator'. That fixed the later problem with HPE but I haven't tried the IBM Spectrum software again. I'm testing the HPE and once done, I'll try starting Spectrum again.
It's a cool way to do backups as it looks like a disk drive. Previously, I was using tar under linux and tar under cygwin Windows. Both ran the tape at full speed, sometimes over 200MB/sec. LTFS seems to pause now and then and when it hits a large file, say 100GB, it stops updating the transfer window.
I can still use tar on unformatted LTFS tape.
The economics and security are pretty good. I bought QTY 10, 1.5TB tapes for $68, so that's 15TB of native storage and with drive compression it could be 2X or higher. I use 3TB SAS drives that consume about 7W per, so backing off to tape saves $18.64 per month in power @ .37kw/h (mirrored) with a breakeven of 3.5 months, better with compression. I take my important stuff and keep it in the car and the pictures and things are in a grab bag. We had 10,000 homes destroyed about 40 miles north of us, so it happens. Two years ago, we had planes dropping fire retardant on the hill above us after something caught fire. They say people dragging chains cause a lot of fires along the highway. Tapes are good for 30yrs, DVDs less than 10, CDs about the same.
Thanks
Jerry