Tape drive library for Xsan??

Hi All,
One of my clients wants to install tape drive library for his Xsan setup. What would you guys suggest? Anyone using tape library?Please share your inputs and feedbacks. Pros and Cons.
cheers,
Pradeep

We are unhappily using BRU because it came bundled with our Exabyte tape system. (I will first state that I have nothing else to compare this to since this is our first tape backup system/software)
The user interface is pretty awful...you can accidently click off or on a setting and loose your archive listings. We also have an ongoing issue where sometimes the library can find and read all of the tapes and sometimes it can't.. I would say this was a tape issue or user error, except that the act of restarting BRU solves it ever time...

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