I would like to see support for LTFS, especially in the V-Ray edition of BackupExec. If we need to restore a file from TAPE of a virtual machine based backup we must stage the entire VHD to hard disk before the file can be restored. Some of our VHDs are greater than 1TB in size. This means a VERY long wait to restore what is usually a few MB file.
If LTFS was an option for backups in BackupExec the VHD could be mounted directly from the tape and the file retrieved by directly seeking to that point in the VHD. This would be possible since LTFS allows files on tape to be directly accessed vs needing to copy them back to hard disk first.
I see this as an immediate need for BackupExec going forward, especially in enviorments where full virtual disks are copied to tape. Restores could go from hours to minutes and would provide much improved restore times from tape.
Hopefully my suggestion will show up as a feature in the near future.
Thanks,
Matt