> Swapping tapes continues to be human intensive and restore times long. Restore times are definitely long, but you can mostly avoid human labor by putting the

> Swapping tapes continues to be human intensive and restore times long. Restore times are definitely long, but you can mostly avoid human labor by putting the tapes in a tape library, which will load tapes in the drives using robots. You still need technicians around because tapes / drives / robots will break, but individual restore operations can be completely automated.