More great info thank you ! The LTO 6 tape BRU software look affordable , but the LTO drive is expensive . At the moment we just archive onto spare HDDs if needed . Do you think tape is really vital given the total amount of data in our systems archiveactive is only around 20 TB . It feels like the money may be better spent elsewhere for now ? <| sep |> Found your <| sep |> I personally don ' t see why you couldn ' t have asked your boyfriend in a feel free to say no kind of way . He should have a good idea if his roommates would be okay with it or not . The one thing my parents liked to do when hosting adults is they would rent us a movie or two and get us some snacks . Then they would head to another room to do and say adult things . I ' m not sure if your BF ' s place is setup that you could do something similar . I guess my big fear is if your friend has to cancel to look after the kid are you not running the risk that you won ' t have an adult party at all or will your boyfriend ' s roommates be there ? To me even if you have to have a kid friendly party it ' s better than having no party at all .