title: "LTFS Support for Windows and Mac" created_at: 2017.03.07 updated_at: 2017.03.12 category: Resources ---

LTFS is now supported in Retrospect 12 for Windows and Retrospect 14 for Mac.

The following scripts are supported:

You will need to format and mount the LTFS drive using the manufacturer’s included software. See below for details.

The following scripts are not supported:

These scripts are not supported due to their proprietary storage format. The purpose of LTFS is an application-agnostic file storage system. If you use Retrospect’s proprietary backup format, there is no need to use LTFS. You can use Retrospect’s tape set format as before.

For Retrospect for Mac to fully support LTFS, you will need to ensure the LTFS Manager is running as root.

For example, run the following in terminal:

The name of the application varies between manufacturers.

Alternatively, you can use mkltfs to format the media and ltfs to mount the media, using Retrospect’s Script Hooks feature.

See Quantum's software.