[kamel3d]

My issue is there not even services the rent them if you want just to use it to copy your data on tape without buying the drive

[bombcar]

https://www.backupworks.com/LTO-7-LTO-8-Tape-Drive-Rental.as...

I mean I found that nearly instantly and there are probably others.

But backups aren’t a “one and done” you want to keep doing them.

[fomine3]

Backup strategy like backup to HDD until it reaches 60TB, then move to tape, is still make sense for write once data.