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CERN Tape Archive documentation

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description	The official documentation of CTA, the tape backend to EOS.
url	https://cta.docs.cern.ch/
kind	technical-docs

Aug 12, 20261 min read

The CERN Tape Archive project documentation.

CTA is the tape backend to disk systems: in conjunction with EOS it manages the data of the LHC experiments.
It is the evolution of CASTOR, removing the need to maintain a second disk-management system alongside the archive.