Archives, without the headaches
Canister works with almost any desktop LTO drives, supports the newest LTFS drivers, and accepts all flavors of source types. Direct-to-tape transfers? With our Shoeshine Protection technology, it's finally possible.
Canister vastly simplifies working with LTO. An easy setup, driver assistance, and true drag-and-drop UI makes working with tape a breeze.
Canister makes LTO work as it was meant to be. It works with about any LTO drive, supports the newest LTFS drivers and LTO firmware, and accepts all source types.
Canister works with almost any desktop LTO drives, supports the newest LTFS drivers, and accepts all flavors of source types. Direct-to-tape transfers? With our Shoeshine Protection technology, it's finally possible.
Canister is filled to the brim with technology to ensure tapes are taxed as little as possible. Browse your LTOs and cherrypick only what you need to retrieve without activating the tape to prevent unneeded winding back and forth of your LTOs.
Canister is at home on Windows just as well as on macOS. Because all Hedge apps are crafted specifically for each OS, they make the most of what each OS has to offer. No cross-platform ballast, ginormous app installers, or dinky user interfaces.
Canister packs some serious rocket science. Features that might seem simple but are incredibly hard to get right. We're proud of how these turned out.
While transfers are running, keep queuing up new files and folders to be archived. Perfect for filling up a tape while you go, instead of having to first consolidate all you want to archive.
Archiving more than will fit on a single tape? Canister's spanning engine keeps track of your files across multiple tapes. Just start archiving to the first tape, and Canister will tell you when it needs a new tape. Rinse, repeat, until done.
The all-new Library Manager — the only true drag-and-drop UI in the world for working with tape libraries. Currently available only on macOS, with full support for mail slots and single drive tape libraries.
You've all made a beautiful program - I've been backing up raw movie materials via LTFS for a decade now, and the process has always been an obtuse annoyance. Canister is decidedly the exception.
All those things you don't want to do without, once you've used them.
Canister offers access to all your tapes without needing to mount them first. Catalogs are created for each tape and made available as a network mount indexed by your OS. All changes are tracked, all versions are kept, like a Time Machine.
No need to rename files before archiving them to tape. Canister handles any unsupported character for you including all international characters and extended attributes. Rocksolid, futureproof, and fully backwards compatible.
Meet the all-new Library Manager — the only true drag-and-drop UI for working with tape libraries. Currently available for macOS, and with full support for mail slots and single drive tape libraries.
No archive is useful if it hasn't been fully verified. Only then can you safely erase the original. With our Checkpoint verification technology built-in, Canister verifies every bit that goes onto a tape. Need MD5 for legacy workflows? We've got it.
Installing drivers for LTFS is a nightmare, if you need to manually do it. Canister’s Preflight Checks detect which drivers your system requires, serves you each download, so you'll be off to the races before you know it.
With projects taking weeks or even months to complete, archiving that what changed regularly is a necessity for many. With duplicate detection built into its core, Canister makes it possible to do those essential incremental backups without realizing it.
With a typical full-tape archival and verification easily taking the better part of 24 hours, getting a good sense of how long your transfer will take becomes essential. Canister's ETA algorithm tells you what you can expect, and when.
With LTO getting faster and faster, source media can quickly become a bottleneck. With regular copy methods, too slow sources shorten the lifespan of your tapes severely. Canister's Shoeshine Protection actively manages supply and demand, resulting in one steady and continous data stream.
Safety comes in numbers, so it's becoming more and more common to create multiple LTO copies at the same time - to save them in separate geographical locations. Canister's foundation is built to be truly multi-device.
Track the progress of your transfers, wherever you are, with our online dashboard Connect. Receive push notifications when a tape has finished, making sure you have the lowest turnaround time as possible on all that you need to do.
Whilst archives need to be a reflection of the original storage, it's not always needed to archive everything. Canister skips system default files like dot underscore and other network protocol sidecars, and offers granular control beyond that.
Canister comes with built-in support for MagStor's NanoPure premium LTO media. Precalibrated and sanitized, NanoPure media paired with Canister gives you a unique insight on the health status of your tapes each time you use them.
With LTO, there's always a need for paperwork somewhere down the line. That's why Canister packs it all: Transfer Logs, Media Hash Lists, Manifests, and a very complete in-app Console. Because you never know what you need, until you do.
Before Canister, LTO made you feel like you needed a Computer Science crash course. Everything that required you to resort to Terminal or PowerShell can now easily be done within Canister. Format, mount, erase - even recovery is built-in.
A Canister license is perpetual, works on both macOS and Windows, and includes a year of updates and support.
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